FREIHEIT EL

FREIHEIT EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, part of COMAL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 662 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so FREIHEIT EL sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Within COMAL ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 29,839 students, FREIHEIT EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, FREIHEIT EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 42% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Comal County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at FREIHEIT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Comal County (around 32%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FREIHEIT EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Comal County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Comal County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), of which FREIHEIT EL is one.

CANYON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREIHEIT EL. On composite proficiency, FREIHEIT EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

FREIHEIT EL operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. FREIHEIT EL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 662). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 54% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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