PETTUS EL

As a micro-enrollment primary school in PETTUS, Texas, PETTUS EL educates 171 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PETTUS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PETTUS EL sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

PETTUS ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 377 students; PETTUS EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PETTUS EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 39% White. Compared to Bee County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, PETTUS EL records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at PETTUS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bee County (around 80%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, PETTUS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Bee County shows median household income runs about $57,673, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Bee County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,097 students), of which PETTUS EL is one.

PETTUS SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PETTUS EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 195 students in 2018 compared to 171 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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