ELGIN H S

ELGIN H S is a sizable secondary school in ELGIN, Texas, part of ELGIN ISD. The school educates 1,771 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 122% above typical.

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

In terms of who attends, ELGIN H S lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 11% White, 10% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ELGIN H S higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ELGIN H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.7%; this one delivers 32.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Travis County) reports that median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. ELGIN H S is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: PHOENIX H S, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ELGIN H S. On composite proficiency, ELGIN H S comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. ELGIN H S's enrollment has edged up 42% since 2018, when it stood at 1,248 (now 1,771). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 60% to 76%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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