WEST CENTRAL EL

WEST CENTRAL EL is one of the cozy primary schools in HEREFORD, Texas, overseen by HEREFORD ISD, with 331 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

Across the 8 schools in HEREFORD ISD (3,964 students total), WEST CENTRAL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WEST CENTRAL EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest comes out to 6% White. By comparison, Deaf Smith County as a whole is about 76% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST CENTRAL EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.7%.

In the surrounding community, Deaf Smith County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,799 per year, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Deaf Smith County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,110 students), WEST CENTRAL EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTHWEST EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around WEST CENTRAL EL. On composite proficiency, WEST CENTRAL EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 48%: 223 students in 2018 compared to 331 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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