OLNEY EL

Set in OLNEY, Texas, OLNEY EL is a small elementary campus, overseen by OLNEY ISD. It educates 369 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 29% smaller than typical.

Across the 3 schools in OLNEY ISD (691 students total), OLNEY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, OLNEY EL reports that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 38% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Young County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, OLNEY EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at OLNEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OLNEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the broader community, Young County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,010 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Young County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,066 students), OLNEY EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OLNEY J H, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OLNEY EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OLNEY EL has rose 8%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 34% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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