RED OAK EL

RED OAK EL is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in RED OAK, Texas, overseen by RED OAK ISD, instructing 491 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within RED OAK ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 6,696 students, RED OAK EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RED OAK EL records that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 38% Hispanic, 17% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ellis County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ellis County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, RED OAK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ellis County) logs that median household income runs about $99,595, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. RED OAK EL is one of 83 public schools in Ellis County (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students).

RED OAK H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RED OAK EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. RED OAK EL's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 603 (now 491). White enrollment moved from 36% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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