LEARY EL

LEARY EL is an one-room-style K-5 school in TEXARKANA, Texas, part of LEARY ISD. The school teaches 119 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 77% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LEARY ISD is the operating authority for LEARY EL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEARY EL records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Bowie County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LEARY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at LEARY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bowie County (around 68%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEARY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.4%; this one delivers 21.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bowie County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,803 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. LEARY EL is one of 46 public schools in Bowie County (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students).

Nearest neighbor: RED LICK EL, around 2.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEARY EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 103 students in 2018 compared to 119 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 85% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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