ROYAL EL

Set in BROOKSHIRE, Texas, ROYAL EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community, part of ROYAL ISD. It educates 760 students across grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ROYAL EL sits 46% bigger than that benchmark.

ROYAL EL is one of 4 schools operated by ROYAL ISD, a district that works with 2,884 students overall.

Demographically, ROYAL EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Black, 8% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Waller County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROYAL EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at ROYAL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Waller County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, ROYAL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of -10.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Waller County) logs that median household income runs about $80,397, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Waller County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,294 students), of which ROYAL EL is one.

ROYAL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ROYAL EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROYAL EL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 759 students in 2018 compared to 760 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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