WATTS EL

Set in CIBOLO, Texas, WATTS EL is an average-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD. It caters to 500 students across grades pre-K through 4.

WATTS EL is one of 16 schools operated by SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD, a district that works with 14,947 students overall.

In terms of who attends, WATTS EL logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 32% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WATTS EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.6%; actual is 33.2%, a gap of -20.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Guadalupe County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,375 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Guadalupe County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,977 students), WATTS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BARBARA JORDAN INT, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WATTS EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WATTS EL has declined 18%, going from 612 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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