HIGHLAND PARK EL

As a tight-knit elementary campus in TEXARKANA, Texas, HIGHLAND PARK EL educates 427 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under TEXARKANA ISD.

Across the 13 schools in TEXARKANA ISD (7,269 students total), HIGHLAND PARK EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, HIGHLAND PARK EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 33% Black, 9% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Bowie County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bowie County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HIGHLAND PARK EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.4%; HIGHLAND PARK EL posts 17.8%, -14.6 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Bowie County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,803 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Bowie County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students), HIGHLAND PARK EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HIGHLAND PARK EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HIGHLAND PARK EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIGHLAND PARK EL has expanded 16%, going from 368 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 44% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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