GILBERT WILLIE SR EL

Located at 1400 S ROCKWALL AVE, in TERRELL, Texas, GILBERT WILLIE SR EL is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that educates 671 students (grades K through 5), overseen by TERRELL ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

GILBERT WILLIE SR EL is one of 9 schools operated by TERRELL ISD, a district that serves 5,283 students overall.

On demographics, GILBERT WILLIE SR EL records that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 19% White, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, GILBERT WILLIE SR EL shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GILBERT WILLIE SR EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at GILBERT WILLIE SR EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kaufman County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GILBERT WILLIE SR EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.5%; GILBERT WILLIE SR EL posts 23.3%, -14.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Kaufman County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,485, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GILBERT WILLIE SR EL is one of 65 public schools in Kaufman County (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students).

The closest other public school is W H BURNETT EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GILBERT WILLIE SR EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GILBERT WILLIE SR EL has declined 8%, going from 728 students in 2018 to 671 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 47% to 52%.

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