NIMITZ EL

Located at 100 VALLEY VIEW, in KERRVILLE, Texas, NIMITZ EL is a mid-tier elementary school that hosts 520 students (grades K through 5), overseen by KERRVILLE ISD.

KERRVILLE ISD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,600 students; NIMITZ EL is among them.

Demographically, NIMITZ EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 39% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kerr County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Kerr County's rate of about 57%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NIMITZ EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 52.4%.

In the surrounding community, Kerr County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,395 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NIMITZ EL is one of 20 public schools in Kerr County (combined enrollment of about 6,808 students).

Nearest neighbor: DANIELS EL, around 2.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NIMITZ EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

NIMITZ EL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 472 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 39% across the same window.

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