NORWOOD EL

NORWOOD EL is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in BURLESON, Texas, operated by BURLESON ISD, with 425 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within BURLESON ISD, which oversees 18 schools and 12,759 students, NORWOOD EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, NORWOOD EL shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 28% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NORWOOD EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at NORWOOD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, NORWOOD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Johnson County) logs that median household income runs about $84,859, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), of which NORWOOD EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CROSSROADS H S, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORWOOD EL. On composite proficiency, NORWOOD EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 441 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 70% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the NORWOOD EL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.