SUNRAY EL

SUNRAY EL, an intimate elementary campus in SUNRAY, Texas, run under SUNRAY COLLEGIATE ISD, caters to 256 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SUNRAY EL sits 51% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in SUNRAY COLLEGIATE ISD (593 students total), SUNRAY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SUNRAY EL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 38% White. That composition is broadly in line with Moore County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Moore County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SUNRAY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 42.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Moore County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,762, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Moore County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,694 students), of which SUNRAY EL is one.

SUNRAY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SUNRAY EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUNRAY EL has edged up 11%, going from 231 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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