EAGLE LAKE INT

EAGLE LAKE INT, a tiny primary school in EAGLE LAKE, Texas, one of the schools within RICE CISD, works with 166 students, covering grades 3 through 5. That puts it 68% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

RICE CISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,306 students; EAGLE LAKE INT is among them.

Demographically, EAGLE LAKE INT shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 14% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Colorado County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, EAGLE LAKE INT records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Colorado County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EAGLE LAKE INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Colorado County reports that median household income runs about $66,377, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. EAGLE LAKE INT is one of 14 public schools in Colorado County (combined enrollment of about 3,697 students).

EAGLE LAKE PRI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EAGLE LAKE INT comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

EAGLE LAKE INT operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 215 students in 2018 compared to 166 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 60% to 76%.

On the community side, the feed for EAGLE LAKE INT typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.