SIMPSON EL

SIMPSON EL is a mid-tier elementary campus in WAXAHACHIE, Texas, run under WAXAHACHIE ISD. The school serves 592 students in grades K through 5.

WAXAHACHIE ISD runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,196 students. SIMPSON EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SIMPSON EL lists that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Hispanic, 19% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SIMPSON EL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at SIMPSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Ellis County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SIMPSON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.6%; this one delivers 52.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ellis County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ellis County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), SIMPSON EL is one campus in the mix.

FINLEY J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SIMPSON EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

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