LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK

Set in RED OAK, Texas, LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK is an expansive K-5 school, one of the schools within LIFE SCHOOL. It works with 1,045 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 101% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LIFE SCHOOL runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,735 students. LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Black, 17% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ellis County) records that the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK is one of 83 public schools in Ellis County (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students).

Nearest neighbor: RED OAK MIDDLE, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK. On composite proficiency, LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a low-density site. LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK has stayed largely flat, going from 1,030 students in 2018 to 1,045 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 35% to 49%. Class-load math has grew: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for LIFE SCHOOL RED OAK typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.