STARKEY EL

STARKEY EL, an intimate elementary school in KERRVILLE, Texas, one of the schools within KERRVILLE ISD, teaches 434 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within KERRVILLE ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 4,600 students, STARKEY EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, STARKEY EL logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kerr County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STARKEY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 42.4%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Kerr County reports that median household income runs about $69,395, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. STARKEY EL is one of 20 public schools in Kerr County (combined enrollment of about 6,808 students).

The closest other public school is FRED H TALLY EL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STARKEY EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 53.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. STARKEY EL's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 434). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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