POST EL

POST EL operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in POST, Texas, overseen by POST ISD. Current enrollment sits at 311 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so POST EL sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

POST ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 686 students. POST EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, POST EL reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 27% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Garza County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, POST EL lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), POST EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.3%; this one comes in at 19.6%, -19.7 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Garza County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $46,314 per year, 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. POST EL is one of 6 public schools in Garza County (combined enrollment of about 841 students).

POST MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, POST EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at POST EL has contracted 28%, going from 431 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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