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GREENWOOD EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GREENWOOD EL
GREENWOOD EL is an expansive K-5 school in MIDLAND, Texas, run under GREENWOOD ISD. The school instructs 829 students in grades pre-K through 2. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so GREENWOOD EL sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.
GREENWOOD ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,373 students. GREENWOOD EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, GREENWOOD EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 40% White. By comparison, Midland County as a whole is about 46% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Midland County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Midland County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,874, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Midland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), of which GREENWOOD EL is one.
GREENWOOD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. GREENWOOD EL's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 1,122 (now 829). Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.
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