SOUTHEAST EL

SOUTHEAST EL operates as an one-room-style elementary campus in SWEETWATER, Texas, run under SWEETWATER ISD. Current enrollment sits at 157 students spanning grades pre-K through K. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SOUTHEAST EL sits 70% below that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in SWEETWATER ISD (1,806 students total), SOUTHEAST EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SOUTHEAST EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at school resources, SOUTHEAST EL shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Nolan County's rate of about 60%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Nolan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,747 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Nolan County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,455 students), of which SOUTHEAST EL is one.

SOUTHEAST EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around SOUTHEAST EL.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 51%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 157 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 34% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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