LEON EL

LEON EL, a low-enrollment K-5 school in JEWETT, Texas, operated by LEON ISD, instructs 386 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

LEON EL is one of 2 schools operated by LEON ISD, a district that educates 758 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LEON EL reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 38% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Leon County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LEON EL shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 58% of students at LEON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 56.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Leon County put median household income runs about $61,449, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Leon County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,286 students), LEON EL is one campus in the mix.

LEON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, LEON EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 377 students in 2018 compared to 386 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 53% across the same window.

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