NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP

NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP is one of the very small unified-grade schools in SMILEY, Texas, run under NIXON-SMILEY CISD, with 2 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 100% leaner than the state mean of about 485.

Across the 5 schools in NIXON-SMILEY CISD (1,016 students total), NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Gonzales County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 0.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.7:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Gonzales County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,672 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Gonzales County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,908 students), of which NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP is one.

Nearest neighbor: NIXON-SMILEY PACE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP's enrollment has edged down 60% since 2018, when it stood at 5 (now 2). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 1.7:1 in 2018 to 0.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the NIXON-SMILEY CISD DAEP community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.