GRIFFIN EL

GRIFFIN EL is a moderately sized K-5 school in TYLER, Texas, overseen by TYLER ISD. The school educates 649 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

GRIFFIN EL is one of 26 schools operated by TYLER ISD, a district that caters to 18,708 students overall.

Looking at the student body, GRIFFIN EL lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Smith County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Smith County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GRIFFIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Smith County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,192 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. GRIFFIN EL is one of 65 public schools in Smith County (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students).

Nearest neighbor: T J AUSTIN EL, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GRIFFIN EL. On composite proficiency, GRIFFIN EL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

GRIFFIN EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRIFFIN EL has fell 3%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 649 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.