CRISWELL EL

CRISWELL EL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in FORNEY, Texas, one of the schools within FORNEY ISD, hosting 549 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Within FORNEY ISD, which oversees 24 schools and 18,565 students, CRISWELL EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CRISWELL EL logs that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 17% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CRISWELL EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CRISWELL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, Kaufman County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which CRISWELL EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: JACKSON MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CRISWELL EL. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CRISWELL EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CRISWELL EL has contracted 10%, going from 608 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 61% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for CRISWELL EL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.