HONEY EL

HONEY EL is a medium-sized K-5 school in LUBBOCK, Texas, one of the schools within LUBBOCK ISD. The school works with 442 students in grades pre-K through 5.

LUBBOCK ISD runs 49 schools in total, collectively educating 24,237 students. HONEY EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HONEY EL logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, HONEY EL lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 49% of students at HONEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lubbock County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HONEY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lubbock County) records that median household earnings sit near $64,155, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lubbock County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), HONEY EL is one campus in the mix.

WATERS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HONEY EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

HONEY EL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HONEY EL has ticked up 3%, going from 429 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 34% to 43%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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