OAK FOREST EL

OAK FOREST EL, a medium-sized elementary campus in VIDOR, Texas, overseen by VIDOR ISD, serves 671 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so OAK FOREST EL sits 29% above that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in VIDOR ISD (4,165 students total), OAK FOREST EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, OAK FOREST EL records that nearly all students (80%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OAK FOREST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $72,104, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Orange County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students), of which OAK FOREST EL is one.

VIDOR MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OAK FOREST EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 650 students in 2018 compared to 671 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 91% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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