ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL

ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL, an average-sized elementary school in TEXAS CITY, Texas, part of TEXAS CITY ISD, instructs 460 students, covering grades K through 4.

TEXAS CITY ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,711 students; ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL lists that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 24% White, 19% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Galveston County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 37.7%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Galveston County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,105, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL is one of 95 public schools in Galveston County (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students).

WOODROW WILSON DAEP is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROOSEVELT-WILSON EL has edged down 33%, going from 685 students in 2018 to 460 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 32% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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