RAGUET EL

Located at 2708 RAGUET ST, in NACOGDOCHES, Texas, RAGUET EL is an intimate elementary school that hosts 409 students (grades K through 5), run under NACOGDOCHES ISD. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within NACOGDOCHES ISD, which oversees 9 schools and 5,766 students, RAGUET EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, RAGUET EL reports that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 31% Black, 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RAGUET EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible 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, RAGUET EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.8%.

In the area at large, Nacogdoches County reports that the typical household earns roughly $53,555 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. RAGUET EL is one of 29 public schools in Nacogdoches County (combined enrollment of about 10,396 students).

The closest other public school is STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RAGUET EL comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 30%: 585 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 37% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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