SAM RAYBURN EL

Located at 9363 E FM 273, in IVANHOE, Texas, SAM RAYBURN EL is a close-knit elementary-level community that enrolls 261 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within SAM RAYBURN ISD. That puts it 50% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within SAM RAYBURN ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 469 students, SAM RAYBURN EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SAM RAYBURN EL lists that nearly all students (83%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Fannin County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, SAM RAYBURN EL has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAM RAYBURN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 63.0%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fannin County put median household earnings sit near $72,295, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Fannin County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,573 students), of which SAM RAYBURN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: RAYBURN H S, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, SAM RAYBURN EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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