HECTOR P GARCIA EL

HECTOR P GARCIA EL, a modestly sized K-5 school in TEMPLE, Texas, one of the schools within TEMPLE ISD, enrolls 396 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so HECTOR P GARCIA EL sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

TEMPLE ISD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,073 students. HECTOR P GARCIA EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HECTOR P GARCIA EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder comes out to 9% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at HECTOR P GARCIA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Bell County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, HECTOR P GARCIA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bell County) logs that median household earnings sit near $68,865, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which HECTOR P GARCIA EL is one.

MERIDITH-DUNBAR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HECTOR P GARCIA EL. On composite proficiency, HECTOR P GARCIA EL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

HECTOR P GARCIA EL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. HECTOR P GARCIA EL's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 396). Black enrollment moved from 16% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for HECTOR P GARCIA EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.