STANTON-SMITH EL

STANTON-SMITH EL is a mid-tier K-5 school in WHITEHOUSE, Texas, one of the schools within WHITEHOUSE ISD. The school instructs 486 students in grades pre-K through 5.

STANTON-SMITH EL is one of 7 schools operated by WHITEHOUSE ISD, a district that teaches 4,676 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STANTON-SMITH EL lists that White students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Smith County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, STANTON-SMITH EL reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at STANTON-SMITH EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Smith County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, STANTON-SMITH EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 55.5%; actual is 78.3%, +22.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Smith County) reports that median household income runs about $74,192, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Smith County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students), of which STANTON-SMITH EL is one.

WHITEHOUSE J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STANTON-SMITH EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STANTON-SMITH EL has fell 20%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 17% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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