SHERIDAN EL

Located at 5526 FM 2437, in SHERIDAN, Texas, SHERIDAN EL is a very small elementary campus that educates 82 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within RICE CISD. That puts it 84% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

RICE CISD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,306 students. SHERIDAN EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SHERIDAN EL shows that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Colorado County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, SHERIDAN EL shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SHERIDAN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Colorado County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SHERIDAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Colorado County shows median household earnings sit near $66,377, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Colorado County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,697 students), SHERIDAN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RICE JH, around 10.9 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHERIDAN EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 30%: 63 students in 2018 compared to 82 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 52% to 43%. Class-load math has widened: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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