WILLOW BEND EL

Located at 8816 13TH ST, in LUBBOCK, Texas, WILLOW BEND EL is a moderately sized elementary-level community that teaches 749 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of FRENSHIP ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 44% above typical.

Within FRENSHIP ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 11,770 students, WILLOW BEND EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLOW BEND EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 23% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILLOW BEND EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.0%; actual is 29.8%, a gap of -19.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lubbock County) reports that median household earnings sit near $64,155, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. WILLOW BEND EL is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

TERRA VISTA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLOW BEND EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLOW BEND EL has expanded 29%, going from 580 students in 2018 to 749 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 2% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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