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Enrollment
523
Elementary
DISTRICT 502 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABILENE ISD·NCES 480744002354
Ortiz Elementary School
2550 VOGEL, ABILENE, TX 79603 · (325) 671-4945 · Taylor County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL523 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
476 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 27 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
30.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +7.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
23.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +6.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 10.0% | 20.0% | 28.0% | 42.0% |
| Mathematics | 8.0% | 15.0% | 27.0% | 50.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 30.0% | 23.0% |
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 23.0% |
| 2022-23 | 29.0% | 13.0% |
| 2021-22 | 27.0% | 22.0% |
| 2020-21 | 23.0% | 17.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ortiz Elementary School
Ortiz Elementary School's state test result (19.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ortiz Elementary School this school | 523 | 91.0% | 19.8% |
| San Jacinto Elementary School BAYTOWN | 567 | 89.8% | 38.8% |
| KIPP Alegria Primary School AUSTIN | 532 | 91.9% | 32.7% |
| Stevens Elementary School HOUSTON | 556 | 90.6% | 27.4% |
| Floyd Elementary School BALCH SPRINGS | 552 | 92.8% | 26.5% |
| Lamar Elementary School BAYTOWN | 498 | 87.8% | 29.6% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ortiz Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Taylor County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #4,286 of 4,401 | #19 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #4,272 of 4,466 ▼ 141 | #19 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #4,275 of 4,466 no change | #19 of 19 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.5pp | #2,038 of 3,998 | #6 of 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 523 | #2,310 of 4,938 | #10 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #2,154 of 4,622 | #10 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.2% | #3,179 of 4,628 | #20 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #952 of 4,789 | #2 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.4% | #1,735 of 2,838 | #10 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
523
-38 (-7%) vs 2020
+67% since 2000-01, when it was 314
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 523 | 35.6 | 14.7:1 | 91% (476) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 33.2 | 13.5:1 | 96% (431) |
| 2022-23 | 484 | 37.3 | 13.0:1 | 92% (447) |
| 2020-21 | 561 | 41 | 13.7:1 | 93% (520) |
| 2017-18 | 604 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 95% (575) |
| 2015-16 | 642 | 42 | 15.3:1 | 90% (579) |
| 2010-11 | 653 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 90% (587) |
| 2000-01 | 314 | 31 | 10.1:1 | 89% (279) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ortiz Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (604 to 523); teachers down 21% (45 to 35.6).
About Ortiz Elementary School
Ortiz Elementary School is a public elementary school in ABILENE, Texas. Total enrollment is 523 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
ABILENE ISD, which runs Ortiz Elementary School, has 26 schools and 14,536 students.
Of every 100 students at Ortiz Elementary School, about 78 are Hispanic. The school is also 12% Black, 7% White, and 3% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 25%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Ortiz Elementary School scores 37%.
The school's 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1. The ratio is within a point of the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. At Ortiz Elementary School, 91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Taylor County is 53%.
Ortiz Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 19.8%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Texas are predicted to post 34.8%, so the school is 15.0 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Taylor County show that the median household earns about $67,139 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Taylor County, 54 public schools serve about 24,159 students.
Mann Middle School is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Ortiz Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ortiz Elementary School is 7th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
For locale, NCES codes Ortiz Elementary School as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 38 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The school's ratio increased from 13.7:1 to 14.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Taylor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,863
Census ACS
Median income
$67,139
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
24,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ABILENE ISD
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Mann Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
- Craig Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
- Madison Middle SchoolMiddle · 770 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolElementary · 729 students
Other schools in ABILENE
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 1,537 students
- Wylie West Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,038 students
- Texas Leadership of AbileneCombined · 834 students
- Mann Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
Other Ortiz Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Ortiz Elementary. Ortiz Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Ortiz Elementary SchoolBROWNSVILLE, TX · 564 students
- Ortiz Elementary SchoolWichita, KS · 323 students
Nearby schools
- Mann Middle School0.6 mi · 776
- Long Early Learning Center0.8 mi · 692
- Martinez Elementary School1.2 mi · 371
- Purcell Elementary School1.4 mi · 537
- Texas Leadership of Abilene1.6 mi · 834
- Abilene High School1.6 mi · 1,798
Frequently asked questions
About Ortiz Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ortiz Elementary School?
Ortiz Elementary School enrolls approximately 523 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Ortiz Elementary School serve?
Ortiz Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Ortiz Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Ortiz Elementary School.
How diverse is Ortiz Elementary School?
Ortiz Elementary School reports a student body of 7% White, 78% Hispanic, 12% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Ortiz Elementary School?
Ortiz Elementary School is overseen by ABILENE ISD in Taylor County.
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