NEWTON EL

NEWTON EL is an elementary school of close-knit scale in NEWTON, Texas, operated by NEWTON ISD, works with 359 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so NEWTON EL sits 31% below that benchmark.

NEWTON ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 934 students; NEWTON EL is among them.

On demographics, NEWTON EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 30% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Newton County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Newton County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NEWTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.5%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of -6.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Newton County indicate median household earnings sit near $42,618, 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Newton County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,750 students), of which NEWTON EL is one.

NEWTON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NEWTON EL. On composite proficiency, NEWTON EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEWTON EL has contracted 31%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 359 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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