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GOODWIN FRAZIER EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GOODWIN FRAZIER EL
GOODWIN FRAZIER EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, operated by COMAL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 662 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
COMAL ISD comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 29,839 students; GOODWIN FRAZIER EL is among them.
In terms of who attends, GOODWIN FRAZIER EL reports that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 44% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Comal County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GOODWIN FRAZIER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 49.1%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Comal County) records that the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Comal County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), GOODWIN FRAZIER EL is one campus in the mix.
MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GOODWIN FRAZIER EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GOODWIN FRAZIER EL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.4%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GOODWIN FRAZIER EL has rose 15%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 662 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.
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