OAK RIDGE EL

As a moderately sized K-5 school in LUBBOCK, Texas, OAK RIDGE EL hosts 678 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within FRENSHIP ISD. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

FRENSHIP ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 11,770 students. OAK RIDGE EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, OAK RIDGE EL records that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 41% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Lubbock County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, OAK RIDGE EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lubbock County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, OAK RIDGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Lubbock County) reports that median household income runs about $64,155, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. OAK RIDGE EL is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

Nearest neighbor: HERITAGE MIDDLE, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAK RIDGE EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OAK RIDGE EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. OAK RIDGE EL's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 635 (now 678). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 49% to 44% over that span.

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