ADAMS EL

Located at 1492 IS GROVE RD, in CLEBURNE, Texas, ADAMS EL is a compact K-5 school that works with 379 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within CLEBURNE ISD. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

ADAMS EL is one of 11 schools operated by CLEBURNE ISD, a district that serves 6,877 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ADAMS EL reports that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 38% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Johnson County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ADAMS EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.7%; ADAMS EL posts 30.8%, -13.9 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,859, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), ADAMS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CLEARFORK ACADEMY SOUTH, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ADAMS EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

ADAMS EL operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ADAMS EL has shrank 7%, going from 408 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 31% to 38% over that span.

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