SPRING CREEK SCHOOL

SPRING CREEK SCHOOL is a K-12 campus of tiny scale in SKELLYTOWN, Texas, one of the schools within SPRING CREEK ISD, teacheing 83 students in grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 485 students each, so SPRING CREEK SCHOOL sits 83% below that benchmark.

SPRING CREEK SCHOOL sits inside SPRING CREEK ISD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, SPRING CREEK SCHOOL logs that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 27% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting SPRING CREEK SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at SPRING CREEK SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Hutchinson County's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, SPRING CREEK SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.9%; SPRING CREEK SCHOOL posts 29.6%, -25.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Hutchinson County reports that median household income runs about $67,228, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hutchinson County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,718 students), of which SPRING CREEK SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is CROCKETT EL, roughly 5.2 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SPRING CREEK SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 6-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 102 students in 2018 compared to 83 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 13% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 today.

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