ELGIN EL

As a mid-sized primary school in ELGIN, Texas, ELGIN EL hosts 673 students from grades pre-K through 4, part of ELGIN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ELGIN EL sits 30% above that benchmark.

ELGIN ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,959 students; ELGIN EL is among them.

On demographics, ELGIN EL lists that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 9% White, 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the resource side, On paper, ELGIN EL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bastrop County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, ELGIN EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.9%; ELGIN EL posts 21.8%, -14.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bastrop County) logs that median household income runs about $86,226, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bastrop County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,931 students), of which ELGIN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELGIN INT, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ELGIN EL. On composite proficiency, ELGIN EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 806 students in 2018 compared to 673 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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