RED LICK EL

Set in TEXARKANA, Texas, RED LICK EL is a compact primary school, overseen by RED LICK ISD. It works with 270 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 48% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

RED LICK ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 504 students; RED LICK EL is among them.

Demographically, RED LICK EL lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bowie County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, RED LICK EL logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bowie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,803 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Bowie County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students), RED LICK EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RED LICK MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 296 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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