GRIFFIN EL

GRIFFIN EL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in FORNEY, Texas, part of FORNEY ISD, hosts 717 students, covering grades K through 4. That puts it 38% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within FORNEY ISD, which oversees 24 schools and 18,565 students, GRIFFIN EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GRIFFIN EL records that the most-represented group is Black (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 14% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, GRIFFIN EL records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kaufman County (around 59%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GRIFFIN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.9%; this one delivers 48.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kaufman County put the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which GRIFFIN EL is one.

DEWBERRY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRIFFIN EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 38.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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