SCIENCE HALL EL

SCIENCE HALL EL, a mid-tier elementary campus in KYLE, Texas, run under HAYS CISD, serves 667 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HAYS CISD runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 24,330 students. SCIENCE HALL EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SCIENCE HALL EL reports that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 9% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at SCIENCE HALL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hays County's rate of about 46%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SCIENCE HALL EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.6%; this one comes in at 32.6%, -14.0 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hays County put the typical household earns roughly $89,097 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hays County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students), of which SCIENCE HALL EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ARMANDO CHAPA MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCIENCE HALL EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCIENCE HALL EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCIENCE HALL EL has shrank 12%, going from 754 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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