ROLLING HILLS EL

ROLLING HILLS EL, a tight-knit primary school in AMARILLO, Texas, operated by RIVER ROAD ISD, hosts 304 students, covering grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ROLLING HILLS EL sits 41% below that benchmark.

RIVER ROAD ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,221 students; ROLLING HILLS EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, ROLLING HILLS EL reports that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest breaks down as 33% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROLLING HILLS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -10.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Potter County reports that the typical household earns roughly $53,249 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. ROLLING HILLS EL is one of 49 public schools in Potter County (combined enrollment of about 21,501 students).

RIVER ROAD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROLLING HILLS EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROLLING HILLS EL has contracted 37%, going from 479 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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