MATAGORDA ISD

MATAGORDA ISD is a micro-enrollment all-grades campus in MATAGORDA, Texas, run under MATAGORDA ISD. The school works with 109 students in grades pre-K through 11. That puts it 78% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.

MATAGORDA ISD is a school of MATAGORDA ISD, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, MATAGORDA ISD shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 48% White.

On the resource side, On paper, MATAGORDA ISD has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting MATAGORDA ISD tighter than the state norm the norm. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MATAGORDA ISD performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Matagorda County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,628 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. MATAGORDA ISD is one of 18 public schools in Matagorda County (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students).

EAST SIDE INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 14.7 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, MATAGORDA ISD comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 31%: 158 students in 2018 compared to 109 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 56% to 48%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 6.9:1 in 2025.

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