DAWSON SCHOOL

DAWSON SCHOOL, a very small multi-level school in WELCH, Texas, run under DAWSON ISD, instructs 140 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 485.

DAWSON SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by DAWSON ISD, a district that enrolls 768 students overall.

In terms of who attends, DAWSON SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 21% White. By comparison, Dawson County as a whole is about 56% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, DAWSON SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.5%; actual is 29.7%, a gap of -15.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dawson County shows median household earnings sit near $54,360, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. DAWSON SCHOOL is one of 4 public schools in Dawson County (combined enrollment of about 2,117 students).

LAMESA SCHOOLS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 16.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, DAWSON SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DAWSON SCHOOL has edged up 8%, going from 130 students in 2018 to 140 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 55% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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