HENDERSON EL

Located at 4800 GRACELAND DR, in MIDLAND, Texas, HENDERSON EL is a medium-sized K-5 school that serves 633 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of MIDLAND ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so HENDERSON EL sits 22% above that benchmark.

MIDLAND ISD runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 29,651 students. HENDERSON EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, HENDERSON EL reports that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 12% White, 6% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Midland County as a whole is about 46% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HENDERSON EL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HENDERSON EL higher than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Midland County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HENDERSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of -12.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Midland County) reports that median household earnings sit near $92,874, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Midland County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), HENDERSON EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JONES EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HENDERSON EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HENDERSON EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HENDERSON EL has expanded 35%, going from 468 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 29% to 12%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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