HENDERSON EL

HENDERSON EL is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in FORNEY, Texas, operated by FORNEY ISD, with 580 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

FORNEY ISD runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 18,565 students. HENDERSON EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HENDERSON EL lists that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic, 19% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, HENDERSON EL logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HENDERSON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at HENDERSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, HENDERSON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.8%; this one delivers 56.2%.

In the area at large, Kaufman County reports that median household income runs about $89,485, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Kaufman County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), HENDERSON EL is one campus in the mix.

THEMER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HENDERSON EL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 54.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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