OILTON EL

Set in OILTON, Texas, OILTON EL is a rural-scale K-5 school, operated by WEBB CISD. It serves 109 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 79% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

WEBB CISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 240 students. OILTON EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, OILTON EL reports that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Webb County's rate of about 83%.

With demographic context factored in, OILTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Webb County put median household earnings sit near $63,058, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), OILTON EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BRUNI MIDDLE, roughly 9.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, OILTON EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. OILTON EL's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 138 (now 109). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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