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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Washington El

Big Spring, Texas

NCES ID
481020000482
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Washington El is a public primary school in Big Spring, Texas, run by Big Spring ISD. It enrols 273 students — the 69286th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

273students

69286th nationally, tied with 121

Teachers

18.0FTE

69389th nationally, tied with 2,170

Students per teacher

15.2students

49463rd nationally, tied with 889

Free or reduced-price lunch

79.5%percent

22534th nationally, tied with 82

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Big Spring ISD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Big Spring H S1,084 students
  2. 2Big Spring J H516 students
  3. 3Big Spring Int489 students
  4. 4Moss El461 students
  5. 5Marcy El360 students
  6. 6Washington El273 students
  7. 7Goliad El232 students
  8. 8Kentwood El95 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Texas median across 9,692 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−47.5%
  • Teachers−48.6%
  • Students per teacher+4.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+12.3%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.