EDISON EL

EDISON EL, a moderately sized elementary-level community in GAINESVILLE, Texas, overseen by GAINESVILLE ISD, enrolls 630 students, covering grades pre-K through 1. That puts it 21% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within GAINESVILLE ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 3,111 students, EDISON EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EDISON EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 22% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at EDISON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Cooke County's rate of about 48%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cooke County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,932 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cooke County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,986 students), of which EDISON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: W E CHALMERS EL, around 1.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. EDISON EL's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 614 (now 630). White enrollment moved from 31% to 22% across the same window.

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