Enrollment
295
Elementary
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW BRAUNFELS ISD·NCES 483237003593
Seele Elementary School
540 HOWARD ST, NEW BRAUNFELS, TX 78130 · (830) 627-6750 · Comal County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL295 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
118 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 45% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
63.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -3.0pp since 2023
Mathematics
60.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 34.0% | 29.0% | 23.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 30.0% | 30.0% | 18.0% | 22.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 63.0% | 60.0% |
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 61.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Seele Elementary School
Seele Elementary School's state test result (60.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seele Elementary School this school | 295 | 40.0% | 60.6% |
| Walnut Springs Elementary School NEW BRAUNFELS | 307 | 39.4% | 55.0% |
| Thrall Elementary School THRALL | 304 | 44.1% | 70.8% |
| Lamar Elementary School NEW BRAUNFELS | 360 | 40.3% | 61.3% |
| Fine Arts Academy FORT WORTH | 274 | 36.5% | 60.6% |
| Robinson Elementary School ROBINSON | 328 | 42.1% | 63.0% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Seele Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Comal County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.6% | #734 of 4,401 | #10 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #957 of 4,466 ▼ 295 | #12 of 22 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #1,191 of 4,466 ▼ 329 | #17 of 22 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 295 | #4,223 of 4,938 | #22 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #454 of 4,622 | #4 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.4% | #1,757 of 4,628 | #11 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.0% | #3,943 of 4,789 | #12 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.3% | #1,291 of 1,307 | #11 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
295
+21 (+8%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 543
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 295 | 24 | 12.3:1 | 40% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 284 | 22 | 12.9:1 | 40% (115) |
| 2022-23 | 313 | 22 | 14.2:1 | 44% (137) |
| 2020-21 | 274 | 18 | 15.2:1 | 46% (125) |
| 2017-18 | 294 | N/A | N/A | 41% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 24 | 17.2:1 | 44% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 409 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 46% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 552 | 35 | 15.8:1 | 36% (198) |
| 1990-91 | 543 | 56 | 9.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Seele Elementary School.
About Seele Elementary School
At 540 HOWARD ST in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, Seele Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary school. Federal data show 295 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
Seele Elementary School reports to NEW BRAUNFELS ISD, which has 15 schools and 9,893 students.
About 52% of the student body at Seele Elementary School is White. Other students are 41% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Comal County residents are about 71% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 56, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 24 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.3:1. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 40%. It compares with 32% for public schools in Comal County.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Seele Elementary School is 4.0 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 60.6% actual, 56.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Texas.
In the surrounding county, Comal County, the median household earns about $101,889 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Comal County has 49 public schools with about 29,653 students, including Seele Elementary School.
New Braunfels High School, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Seele Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Seele Elementary School is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, Seele Elementary School enrolled 274 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 295. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.2:1 to 12.3:1.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Seele Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Comal County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,826
Census ACS
Median income
$101,889
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
29,653 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW BRAUNFELS ISD
- New Braunfels High SchoolHigh · 1,990 students
- New Braunfels Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,301 students
- Oakrun Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,013 students
- Veramendi Elementary SchoolElementary · 935 students
- Long Creek High SchoolHigh · 813 students
- Voss Farms Elementary SchoolElementary · 807 students
Other schools in NEW BRAUNFELS
- Canyon High SchoolHigh · 2,414 students
- New Braunfels High SchoolHigh · 1,990 students
- New Braunfels Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,301 students
- Canyon Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,251 students
- Oakrun Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,013 students
- Veramendi Elementary SchoolElementary · 935 students
Nearby schools
- New Braunfels High School0.9 mi · 1,990
- Carl Schurz Elementary School1.2 mi · 308
- Lamar Elementary School1.3 mi · 360
- Lone Star Early Childhood Center1.6 mi · 306
- Veramendi Elementary School2.1 mi · 935
- Oakrun Middle School2.3 mi · 1,013
Frequently asked questions
About Seele Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Seele Elementary School?
Seele Elementary School enrolls approximately 295 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Seele Elementary School serve?
Seele Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Seele Elementary School have?
Seele Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Seele Elementary School?
At Seele Elementary School, the student body is approximately 52% White, 41% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Seele Elementary School in?
Seele Elementary School is part of NEW BRAUNFELS ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.