EMELINE CARPENTER EL

Located at 5209 SE STALLINGS DR, in NACOGDOCHES, Texas, EMELINE CARPENTER EL is a cozy elementary campus that hosts 359 students (grades K through 5), run under NACOGDOCHES ISD. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

NACOGDOCHES ISD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,766 students. EMELINE CARPENTER EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, EMELINE CARPENTER EL records that Black students make up the majority at 58%; the rest breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 9% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Nacogdoches County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nacogdoches County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, EMELINE CARPENTER EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.6%; EMELINE CARPENTER EL posts 13.4%, -20.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Nacogdoches County indicate the typical household earns roughly $53,555 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nacogdoches County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,396 students), of which EMELINE CARPENTER EL is one.

The closest other public school is MCMICHAEL MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EMELINE CARPENTER EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EMELINE CARPENTER EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 520 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 34% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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