SMITH INT

As a mid-sized 6-8 campus in FORNEY, Texas, SMITH INT hosts 680 students from grades 5 through 6, part of FORNEY ISD.

SMITH INT is one of 24 schools operated by FORNEY ISD, a district that works with 18,565 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SMITH INT logs that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 14% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SMITH INT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.7%; this one delivers 31.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kaufman County put median household earnings sit near $89,485, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Kaufman County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), SMITH INT is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTH FORNEY H S, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SMITH INT ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. SMITH INT's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 696 (now 680). Black enrollment moved from 22% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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