NORTHSIDE EL

Located at 800 N VAN BUREN, in HENDERSON, Texas, NORTHSIDE EL is a compact elementary-level community that works with 430 students (grades 4 through 5), operated by HENDERSON ISD.

Within HENDERSON ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 3,245 students, NORTHSIDE EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, NORTHSIDE EL shows that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 37% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Rusk County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, NORTHSIDE EL reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NORTHSIDE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORTHSIDE EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.7%; NORTHSIDE EL posts 28.9%, -17.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Rusk County put median household earnings sit near $68,658, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rusk County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students), of which NORTHSIDE EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HENDERSON H S, around 1.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTHSIDE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHSIDE EL has fell 21%, going from 547 students in 2018 to 430 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 50% to 42%.

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