GARY SCHOOL

GARY SCHOOL is a K-12 campus of mid-tier scale in GARY, Texas, one of the schools within GARY ISD, caters to 476 students in grades pre-K through 12.

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

On the student-mix side, GARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest is composed of 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Panola County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, GARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at GARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Panola County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Panola County indicate median household income runs about $64,894, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Panola County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,884 students), of which GARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PANOLA CS, around 7.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 46.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. GARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 471 (now 476).

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