HAZEL INGRAM EL

Located at 600 S CENTRAL, in FERRIS, Texas, HAZEL INGRAM EL is a compact elementary-level community that hosts 335 students (grades pre-K through K), operated by FERRIS ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

Within FERRIS ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 3,010 students, HAZEL INGRAM EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HAZEL INGRAM EL reports that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 12% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, HAZEL INGRAM EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ellis County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ellis County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. HAZEL INGRAM EL is one of 83 public schools in Ellis County (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students).

LUCY MAE MCDONALD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around HAZEL INGRAM EL.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 405 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 69% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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