KILGORE PRI

KILGORE PRI operates as an average-sized elementary campus in KILGORE, Texas, run under KILGORE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 621 students spanning grades pre-K through 1.

Across the 5 schools in KILGORE ISD (3,660 students total), KILGORE PRI accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, KILGORE PRI shows that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, KILGORE PRI records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KILGORE PRI tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Rusk County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Rusk County shows median household earnings sit near $68,658, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Rusk County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students), KILGORE PRI is one campus in the mix.

KILGORE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

KILGORE PRI operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KILGORE PRI has fell 25%, going from 833 students in 2018 to 621 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 46% to 41%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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