STEWART EL

STEWART EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in HUNTSVILLE, Texas, run under HUNTSVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 547 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

STEWART EL is one of 11 schools operated by HUNTSVILLE ISD, a district that hosts 12,092 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STEWART EL lists that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 25% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, STEWART EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting STEWART EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at STEWART EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEWART EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.5%; STEWART EL posts 28.5%, -15.0 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Walker County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,324 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Walker County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students), STEWART EL is one campus in the mix.

IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - HUNTSVILLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STEWART EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEWART EL has rose 8%, going from 507 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 40% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.