LEONARD SHANKLIN EL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in LULING, Texas, LEONARD SHANKLIN EL serves 735 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by LULING ISD. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LULING ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,443 students. LEONARD SHANKLIN EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LEONARD SHANKLIN EL logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 23% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Caldwell County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, LEONARD SHANKLIN EL logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, LEONARD SHANKLIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the area at large, Caldwell County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,758, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LEONARD SHANKLIN EL is one of 19 public schools in Caldwell County (combined enrollment of about 9,286 students).

Nearest neighbor: LULING H S, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LEONARD SHANKLIN EL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEONARD SHANKLIN EL has climbed 67%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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