WALNUT SPRINGS EL

WALNUT SPRINGS EL, a modestly sized primary school in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, part of NEW BRAUNFELS ISD, hosts 307 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WALNUT SPRINGS EL sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW BRAUNFELS ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 9,893 students; WALNUT SPRINGS EL is among them.

Demographically, WALNUT SPRINGS EL lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 45% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Comal County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, WALNUT SPRINGS EL records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WALNUT SPRINGS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.7%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of -6.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Comal County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Comal County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), WALNUT SPRINGS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: COUNTY LINE EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WALNUT SPRINGS EL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WALNUT SPRINGS EL has decreased 19%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 307 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 50% to 45%.

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