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RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL
RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in GLENN HEIGHTS, Texas, part of RED OAK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 756 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 46% bigger than typical.
RED OAK ISD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 6,696 students; RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL is among them.
Looking at the student body, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ellis County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ellis County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.7%; this one delivers 34.6%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ellis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ellis County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SHIELDS EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 84%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 756 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.
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