W A MARTIN EL

W A MARTIN EL is an average-sized elementary campus in CRANDALL, Texas, one of the schools within CRANDALL ISD. The school teaches 614 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 8 schools in CRANDALL ISD (6,922 students total), W A MARTIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, W A MARTIN EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder reads as 23% White, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kaufman County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), W A MARTIN EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.1%; W A MARTIN EL posts 29.1%, -15.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Kaufman County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kaufman County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), W A MARTIN EL is one campus in the mix.

NOLA KATHRYN WILSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W A MARTIN EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), W A MARTIN EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W A MARTIN EL has ticked up 16%, going from 530 students in 2018 to 614 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 53% to 23% over that span.

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