SULPHUR SPRINGS EL

SULPHUR SPRINGS EL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas, run under SULPHUR SPRINGS ISD, hosts 598 students, covering grades 4 through 5.

Within SULPHUR SPRINGS ISD, which oversees 9 schools and 4,236 students, SULPHUR SPRINGS EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, SULPHUR SPRINGS EL lists that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SULPHUR SPRINGS EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, SULPHUR SPRINGS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 41.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hopkins County indicate median household income runs about $70,888, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hopkins County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,733 students), of which SULPHUR SPRINGS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: AUSTIN ACADEMIC CENTER, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SULPHUR SPRINGS EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 656 students in 2018 compared to 598 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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