ERA SCHOOL

Located at 108 HARGROVE ST, in ERA, Texas, ERA SCHOOL is a medium-sized combined-grade school that educates 499 students (grades pre-K through 12), overseen by ERA ISD.

Operationally, ERA SCHOOL answers to ERA ISD, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, ERA SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at ERA SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, ERA SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.1%.

In the broader community, Cooke County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,932 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cooke County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,986 students), ERA SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is VALLEY VIEW EL, roughly 7.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ERA SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 46.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ERA SCHOOL has increased 4%, going from 479 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.