SIMMS EL

SIMMS EL is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in TEXAS CITY, Texas, part of TEXAS CITY ISD, enrolling 482 students in grades K through 5.

Within TEXAS CITY ISD, which oversees 15 schools and 7,711 students, SIMMS EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SIMMS EL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Hispanic, 11% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Galveston County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Galveston County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SIMMS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.4%, the actual is 22.9%, a residual of -12.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Galveston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SIMMS EL is one of 95 public schools in Galveston County (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students).

GILES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SIMMS EL at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 26.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 574 students in 2018 compared to 482 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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