TRENTON EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TRENTON EL
TRENTON EL operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in TRENTON, Texas, part of TRENTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 276 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so TRENTON EL sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.
Within TRENTON ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 712 students, TRENTON EL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, TRENTON EL reports that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Fannin County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, TRENTON EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TRENTON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TRENTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.2%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -3.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, Fannin County reports that median household income runs about $72,295, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Fannin County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,573 students), of which TRENTON EL is one.
The closest other public school is TRENTON H S, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around TRENTON EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TRENTON EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.3%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TRENTON EL has rose 30%, going from 213 students in 2018 to 276 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 75% to 60%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
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