CROSS OAKS EL

Located at 600 LIBERTY BLVD, in CROSS ROADS, Texas, CROSS OAKS EL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that enrolls 588 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under DENTON ISD.

DENTON ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,329 students; CROSS OAKS EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, CROSS OAKS EL reports that 33% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 28% Black, 23% White, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, CROSS OAKS EL logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CROSS OAKS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CROSS OAKS EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.8%; actual is 31.8%, a gap of -19.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Denton County) reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), CROSS OAKS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RODRIGUEZ MIDDLE, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CROSS OAKS EL. On composite proficiency, CROSS OAKS EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CROSS OAKS EL has declined 19%, going from 724 students in 2018 to 588 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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