HUDSON EL

HUDSON EL is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in LONGVIEW, Texas, one of the schools within LONGVIEW ISD, teacheing 452 students in grades 1 through 5.

Across the 14 schools in LONGVIEW ISD (8,138 students total), HUDSON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HUDSON EL logs that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HUDSON EL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Gregg County (around 68%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HUDSON EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 93.1%, a residual of +42.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Gregg County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,550 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. HUDSON EL is one of 46 public schools in Gregg County (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students).

The closest other public school is FOSTER MIDDLE, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HUDSON EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. HUDSON EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HUDSON EL has contracted 25%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 18% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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