CARLISLE SCHOOL

CARLISLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized multi-level school in HENDERSON, Texas, overseen by CARLISLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 646 students spanning grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 485.

CARLISLE ISD is the operating authority for CARLISLE SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, CARLISLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Rusk County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Rusk County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, CARLISLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.4%; this one delivers 40.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Rusk County) logs that median household income runs about $68,658, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. CARLISLE SCHOOL is one of 29 public schools in Rusk County (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students).

Nearest neighbor: WEST RUSK H S, around 7.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CARLISLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

CARLISLE SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 638 students in 2018 compared to 646 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.