DAMON EL

As a very small elementary campus in DAMON, Texas, DAMON EL serves 107 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by DAMON ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 79% below typical.

DAMON EL sits inside DAMON ISD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DAMON EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Brazoria County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAMON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Brazoria County's 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), DAMON EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NEEDVILLE H S, around 6.6 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, DAMON EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 42%: 185 students in 2018 compared to 107 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for DAMON EL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.