GOLIAD EL

GOLIAD EL, a low-enrollment K-5 school in BIG SPRING, Texas, operated by BIG SPRING ISD, works with 271 students, covering grade 4. Enrollment runs roughly 48% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

GOLIAD EL is one of 8 schools operated by BIG SPRING ISD, a district that educates 3,742 students overall.

Looking at the student body, GOLIAD EL shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 22% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Howard County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at GOLIAD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Howard County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, GOLIAD EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.9%; this one delivers 47.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Howard County put the typical household earns roughly $69,649 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. GOLIAD EL is one of 15 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 5,521 students).

Nearest neighbor: BIG SPRING INT, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around GOLIAD EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOLIAD EL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 42.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at GOLIAD EL has decreased 11%, going from 303 students in 2018 to 271 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 28% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2024.

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