CROCKETT EL

CROCKETT EL operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in CROCKETT, Texas, operated by CROCKETT ISD. Current enrollment sits at 377 students spanning grades 1 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CROCKETT EL sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

CROCKETT ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,124 students; CROCKETT EL is among them.

Demographically, CROCKETT EL reports that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 16% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Houston County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CROCKETT EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at CROCKETT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Houston County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, CROCKETT EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.8%; actual is 18.3%, a gap of -15.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Houston County) logs that median household earnings sit near $56,531, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Houston County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,141 students), of which CROCKETT EL is one.

CROCKETT J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CROCKETT EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

CROCKETT EL operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. CROCKETT EL's enrollment has decreased 25% since 2018, when it stood at 504 (now 377). The Black share of enrollment declined from 50% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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