SOUTHWEST EL

SOUTHWEST EL operates as a cozy elementary campus in BELTON, Texas, run under BELTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 415 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% below the state mean of about 519.

BELTON ISD runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 13,980 students. SOUTHWEST EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SOUTHWEST EL reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 20% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, SOUTHWEST EL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 82% of students at SOUTHWEST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Bell County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SOUTHWEST EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.1%; actual is 22.4%, a gap of -15.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bell County shows median household earnings sit near $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which SOUTHWEST EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH BELTON MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTHWEST EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTHWEST EL has grew 9%, going from 381 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.