JAMES BOWIE EL

Located at 7497 US HWY 67 W, in SIMMS, Texas, JAMES BOWIE EL is a tight-knit primary school that caters to 212 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by SIMMS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JAMES BOWIE EL sits 59% leaner than that benchmark.

SIMMS ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 480 students; JAMES BOWIE EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, JAMES BOWIE EL logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, JAMES BOWIE EL lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JAMES BOWIE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 42.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Bowie County shows median household income runs about $59,803, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. JAMES BOWIE EL is one of 46 public schools in Bowie County (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students).

JAMES BOWIE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMES BOWIE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.6%.

JAMES BOWIE EL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 230 students in 2018 compared to 212 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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