ANTON SCHOOL

ANTON SCHOOL, a rural-scale combined-grade school in ANTON, Texas, operated by ANTON ISD, teaches 175 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 64% below the state mean of about 485.

ANTON SCHOOL is a school of ANTON ISD, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ANTON SCHOOL logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 23% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 50% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at ANTON SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ANTON SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.2%; actual is 23.4%, a gap of -21.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Hockley County shows median household earnings sit near $63,140, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hockley County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,633 students), of which ANTON SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WHITHARRAL SCHOOL, around 10.8 miles off. On composite proficiency, ANTON SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

ANTON SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ANTON SCHOOL has shrank 26%, going from 235 students in 2018 to 175 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the ANTON SCHOOL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.