CHANDLER EL

CHANDLER EL is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in KILGORE, Texas, run under KILGORE ISD, with 501 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 3.

CHANDLER EL is one of 5 schools operated by KILGORE ISD, a district that teaches 3,660 students overall.

Demographically, CHANDLER EL logs that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 39% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, CHANDLER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Rusk County put the typical household earns roughly $68,658 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CHANDLER EL is one of 29 public schools in Rusk County (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students).

KILGORE INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around CHANDLER EL. On composite proficiency, CHANDLER EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. CHANDLER EL's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 609 (now 501). The White share of enrollment edged down from 45% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.