WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H

WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H is a 6-8 campus of low-enrollment scale in DENVER CITY, Texas, one of the schools within DENVER CITY ISD, educateing 319 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 50% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within DENVER CITY ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,474 students, WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 12% White. By comparison, Yoakum County as a whole is about 66% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.3%; this one comes in at 31.4%, -16.9 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Yoakum County) shows that median household income runs about $84,925, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Yoakum County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,897 students), of which WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H is one.

The closest other public school is DENVER CITY H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM G GRAVITT J H at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 366 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025.

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