Enrollment
163
Combined
STATE 485
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PANTHER CREEK CISD·NCES 480000706343
PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL
129 PR 3421, VALERA, TX 76884 · (325) 203-5800 · Coleman County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL163 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
7.7:1
21 FTE teachers
STATE 11.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
114 students
STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
40.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -2.0pp since 2023
Mathematics
14.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
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
27.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
163
-11 (-6%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
7.7:1
was 9.4:1
% White
74%
was 74%
% Hispanic
21%
was 21%
% Black
1%
was 2%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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 is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.8%; PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL posts 27.2%, -16.6 points below that line.
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 9th 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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Coleman County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
7,833
Census ACS
Median income
$49,159
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
6
1,218 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Nearby schools
- COLEMAN EL14.0 mi · 334
- COLEMAN J H14.0 mi · 233
- COLEMAN H S14.0 mi · 229
- SANTA ANNA SECONDARY15.1 mi · 113
- SANTA ANNA EL15.1 mi · 146
- LOHN SCHOOL23.3 mi · 123
Frequently asked questions
About PANTHER CREEK SCHOOLHow large is PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL?
PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL enrolls approximately 163 students in grades PK-12.
What grades does PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL serve?
PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL serves grades PK-12.
How many students per teacher at PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL?
Approximately 7.7:1 students per teacher at PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL.
How diverse is PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL?
PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL reports a student body of 74% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL?
PANTHER CREEK SCHOOL is overseen by PANTHER CREEK CISD in Coleman County.
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