GAUSE EL

GAUSE EL operates as a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in GAUSE, Texas, run under GAUSE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 134 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so GAUSE EL sits 74% below that benchmark.

Operationally, GAUSE EL answers to GAUSE ISD, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GAUSE EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 31% White, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Milam County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, GAUSE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 53.6%, a residual of +12.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Milam County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,141 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Milam County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,337 students), of which GAUSE EL is one.

HEARNE JH/HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, GAUSE EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GAUSE EL has contracted 27%, going from 184 students in 2018 to 134 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 35% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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