ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING

As a small K-5 school in GALVESTON, Texas, ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING works with 315 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by GALVESTON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 519.

GALVESTON ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 7,662 students. ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING reports that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 30% Hispanic, 21% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Galveston County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.9%; this one delivers 36.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Galveston County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Galveston County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), of which ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING is one.

AUSTIN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING. On composite proficiency, ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at ROSENBERG EL LABORATORY FOR LEARNING AND LEADING has decreased 25%, going from 418 students in 2018 to 315 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.