CADDO GROVE EL

CADDO GROVE EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in JOSHUA, Texas, run under JOSHUA ISD. The school caters to 611 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 10 schools in JOSHUA ISD (6,026 students total), CADDO GROVE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, CADDO GROVE EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 39% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, CADDO GROVE EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Johnson County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CADDO GROVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Johnson County put the typical household earns roughly $84,859 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), of which CADDO GROVE EL is one.

R C LOFLIN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CADDO GROVE EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CADDO GROVE EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CADDO GROVE EL has fell 4%, going from 635 students in 2018 to 611 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 39% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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