PACKSADDLE EL

As a medium-sized elementary campus in KINGSLAND, Texas, PACKSADDLE EL hosts 630 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under LLANO ISD. That puts it 21% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 4 schools in LLANO ISD (1,968 students total), PACKSADDLE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PACKSADDLE EL logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 43% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Llano County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Llano County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PACKSADDLE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Llano County put the typical household earns roughly $67,530 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Llano County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,113 students), of which PACKSADDLE EL is one.

The closest other public school is KINGSLAND SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PACKSADDLE EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PACKSADDLE EL has increased 33%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 630 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 50% across the same window.

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