GERARD EL

GERARD EL is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in CLEBURNE, Texas, run under CLEBURNE ISD, with 474 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

CLEBURNE ISD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,877 students. GERARD EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, GERARD EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, GERARD EL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 50% of students at GERARD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GERARD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Johnson County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,859 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), GERARD EL is one campus in the mix.

LOWELL SMITH JR INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GERARD EL. On composite proficiency, GERARD EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 543 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 68% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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