SOUTH EL

SOUTH EL is one of the compact elementary schools in LEVELLAND, Texas, one of the schools within LEVELLAND ISD, with 238 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 4. That puts it 54% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LEVELLAND ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,575 students; SOUTH EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SOUTH EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SOUTH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hockley County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the area at large, Hockley County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,140 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH EL is one of 16 public schools in Hockley County (combined enrollment of about 4,633 students).

MOSAIC ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around SOUTH EL. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 331 students in 2018 compared to 238 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 69% to 77% across the same window.

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