ZAVALLA EL

Located at 431 E MAIN ST, in ZAVALLA, Texas, ZAVALLA EL is a rural-scale K-5 school that serves 162 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of ZAVALLA ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 69% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

ZAVALLA EL is one of 2 schools operated by ZAVALLA ISD, a district that educates 303 students overall.

Demographically, ZAVALLA EL logs that nearly all students (96%) are White; the rest consists of 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, ZAVALLA EL shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at ZAVALLA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ZAVALLA EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.0%; ZAVALLA EL posts 19.4%, -21.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Angelina County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,960 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Angelina County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,649 students), of which ZAVALLA EL is one.

ZAVALLA H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, ZAVALLA EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ZAVALLA EL has declined 9%, going from 178 students in 2018 to 162 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 96% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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