KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL

KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community in CADDO MILLS, Texas, run under CADDO MILLS ISD. The school works with 669 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Within CADDO MILLS ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 3,073 students, KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hunt County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hunt County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,938 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hunt County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), of which KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL is one.

CADDO MILLS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. KATHRYN GRIFFIS EL's enrollment has rose 46% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 669). White enrollment moved from 81% to 56% across the same window.

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