WEST END EL

Set in INDUSTRY, Texas, WEST END EL is a minimally staffed elementary school, overseen by BELLVILLE ISD. It hosts 143 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WEST END EL sits 72% below that benchmark.

Within BELLVILLE ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,315 students, WEST END EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WEST END EL records that White students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Austin County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, WEST END EL has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Austin County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST END EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 54.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Austin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,789, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WEST END EL is one of 12 public schools in Austin County (combined enrollment of about 5,944 students).

FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOLS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 11.6 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, WEST END EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. WEST END EL's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 150 (now 143).

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