SANFORD-FRITCH EL

Set in FRITCH, Texas, SANFORD-FRITCH EL is a modestly sized elementary school, run under SANFORD-FRITCH ISD. It serves 344 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within SANFORD-FRITCH ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 745 students, SANFORD-FRITCH EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, SANFORD-FRITCH EL reports that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, SANFORD-FRITCH EL reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SANFORD-FRITCH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SANFORD-FRITCH EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 39.0%.

Around the school, Hutchinson County reports that median household income runs about $67,228, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hutchinson County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,718 students), of which SANFORD-FRITCH EL is one.

SANFORD-FRITCH J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SANFORD-FRITCH EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 87% to 80%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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