SOUDER EL

Set in EVERMAN, Texas, SOUDER EL is a cozy elementary school, run under EVERMAN ISD. It works with 315 students across grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

EVERMAN ISD comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,018 students; SOUDER EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUDER EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 22% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, SOUDER EL records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, SOUDER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.3%; this one delivers 30.9%.

In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), SOUDER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: UPLIFT ASCEND PREP PS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUDER EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

SOUDER EL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUDER EL has fell 40%, going from 529 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 68% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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