BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL

As an average-sized primary school in VAN ALSTYNE, Texas, BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL educates 562 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within VAN ALSTYNE ISD.

VAN ALSTYNE ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,612 students; BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Grayson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Grayson County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Grayson County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,182, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Grayson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), of which BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL is one.

VAN ALSTYNE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOB AND LOLA SANFORD EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.