PARMLEY EL

PARMLEY EL operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in WILLIS, Texas, run under WILLIS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 631 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

PARMLEY EL is one of 12 schools operated by WILLIS ISD, a district that hosts 9,313 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PARMLEY EL reports that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 29% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PARMLEY EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PARMLEY EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PARMLEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,701, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. PARMLEY EL is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).

The closest other public school is ROARK EARLY EDUCATION CENTER, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARMLEY EL comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARMLEY EL has decreased 17%, going from 758 students in 2018 to 631 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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