SHIELDS EL

SHIELDS EL, a moderately sized primary school in GLENN HEIGHTS, Texas, overseen by RED OAK ISD, serves 625 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SHIELDS EL sits 20% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in RED OAK ISD (6,696 students total), SHIELDS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SHIELDS EL reports that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 19% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Ellis County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SHIELDS EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at SHIELDS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ellis County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SHIELDS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ellis County indicate median household income runs about $99,595, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Ellis County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), SHIELDS EL is one campus in the mix.

RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHIELDS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SHIELDS EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 39.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHIELDS EL has edged up 8%, going from 580 students in 2018 to 625 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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