PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL

PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL is an unified-grade school of very small scale in VALERA, Texas, run under PANTHER CREEK CISD, enrolling 163 students in grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 485.

PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL sits inside PANTHER CREEK CISD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.7:1. The state averages around 11.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Coleman County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 30.9%, a residual of -12.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Coleman County shows the typical household earns roughly $49,159 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Coleman County (combined enrollment of about 1,218 students).

Nearest neighbor: COLEMAN EL, around 14.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 174 students in 2018 compared to 163 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 in 2025.

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