OLIVER EL

As an intimate primary school in STAMFORD, Texas, OLIVER EL enrolls 295 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under STAMFORD ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so OLIVER EL sits 43% below that benchmark.

STAMFORD ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 586 students; OLIVER EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OLIVER EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 33% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting OLIVER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jones County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OLIVER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.8%.

Around the school, Jones County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,464 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Jones County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,572 students), OLIVER EL is one campus in the mix.

STAMFORD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OLIVER EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 60% across the same window.

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