ACTON EL

ACTON EL is an elementary campus of big scale in GRANBURY, Texas, run under GRANBURY ISD, works with 841 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ACTON EL sits 62% above that benchmark.

GRANBURY ISD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 7,962 students. ACTON EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ACTON EL reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Hood County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ACTON EL records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at ACTON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hood County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ACTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hood County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,160 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hood County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,530 students), of which ACTON EL is one.

The closest other public school is ACTON MIDDLE, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around ACTON EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACTON EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 51.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. ACTON EL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 854 (now 841). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 80% to 71% over that span.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.