CORA SPENCER EL

CORA SPENCER EL, a mid-tier K-5 school in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, run under MANSFIELD ISD, enrolls 653 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CORA SPENCER EL sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

CORA SPENCER EL is one of 47 schools operated by MANSFIELD ISD, a district that enrolls 35,354 students overall.

Demographically, CORA SPENCER EL records that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CORA SPENCER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 70.2%, a residual of +11.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), CORA SPENCER EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MARY LILLARD I S, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CORA SPENCER EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 736 students in 2018 compared to 653 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 26% to 20%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.