OVERTON RAY EL

OVERTON RAY EL, a medium-sized K-5 school in BURKBURNETT, Texas, overseen by BURKBURNETT ISD, hosts 526 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

BURKBURNETT ISD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,213 students. OVERTON RAY EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OVERTON RAY EL shows that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Wichita County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, OVERTON RAY EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.2%; actual is 35.3%, a gap of -13.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wichita County) shows that median household income runs about $63,524, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Wichita County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,047 students), of which OVERTON RAY EL is one.

BURKBURNETT H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around OVERTON RAY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OVERTON RAY EL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 45.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. OVERTON RAY EL's enrollment has expanded 15% since 2018, when it stood at 458 (now 526). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

On the community side, members of the OVERTON RAY EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.