HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL

HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL, an intimate elementary-level community in HAMLIN, Texas, operated by HAMLIN COLLEGIATE ISD, works with 231 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 55% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL is one of 2 schools operated by HAMLIN COLLEGIATE ISD, a district that instructs 402 students overall.

On demographics, HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 41% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Jones County's rate of about 58%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Across the wider county, Jones County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,464 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Jones County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,572 students), of which HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL is one.

The closest other public school is HAMLIN COLLEGIATE H S, roughly 0.6 miles away. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site. HAMLIN COLLEGIATE EL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 231 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share climbed from 44% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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