KARNES CITY EL

KARNES CITY EL, a small K-5 school in KARNES CITY, Texas, run under KARNES CITY ISD, caters to 296 students, covering grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KARNES CITY EL sits 43% below that benchmark.

KARNES CITY ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,021 students. KARNES CITY EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, KARNES CITY EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Other groups include 15% White. By comparison, Karnes County as a whole is about 53% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, KARNES CITY EL logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at KARNES CITY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, KARNES CITY EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.0%; actual is 29.4%, a gap of -15.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Karnes County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,214 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Karnes County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,456 students), of which KARNES CITY EL is one.

KARNES CITY PRI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around KARNES CITY EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KARNES CITY EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.1%.

KARNES CITY EL operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KARNES CITY EL has changed only slightly, going from 303 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 77% to 81% over that span.

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