ECTOR EL

Set in ECTOR, Texas, ECTOR EL is a tiny elementary-level community, part of ECTOR ISD. It teaches 124 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ECTOR EL sits 76% leaner than that benchmark.

Within ECTOR ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 234 students, ECTOR EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ECTOR EL lists that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder is composed of 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ECTOR EL has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ECTOR EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ECTOR EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 38.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fannin County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,295, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Fannin County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,573 students), of which ECTOR EL is one.

ECTOR H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ECTOR EL. On composite proficiency, ECTOR EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 14%: 109 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 74% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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