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 47.8%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -5.9 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 7th 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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