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CRANDALL H S
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CRANDALL H S
Set in CRANDALL, Texas, CRANDALL H S is a high-enrollment secondary school, run under CRANDALL ISD. It teaches 1,999 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so CRANDALL H S sits 151% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 8 schools in CRANDALL ISD (6,922 students total), CRANDALL H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, CRANDALL H S logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Black, 26% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, CRANDALL H S has 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CRANDALL H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.9%.
In the surrounding community, Kaufman County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kaufman County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), CRANDALL H S is one campus in the mix.
NOLA KATHRYN WILSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around CRANDALL H S. On composite proficiency, CRANDALL H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. CRANDALL H S's enrollment has increased 85% since 2018, when it stood at 1,082 (now 1,999). White enrollment moved from 55% to 26% across the same window.
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