R A HALL EL

R A HALL EL, a mid-sized elementary campus in BEEVILLE, Texas, run under BEEVILLE ISD, instructs 463 students, covering grades 1 through 5.

Across the 5 schools in BEEVILLE ISD (3,033 students total), R A HALL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, R A HALL EL lists that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% White, 2% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, R A HALL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 33.5%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $57,673 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Bee County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,097 students), R A HALL EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MORENO J H, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around R A HALL EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), R A HALL EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 8% across the same window.

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