YANTIS EL

As a minimally staffed elementary school in YANTIS, Texas, YANTIS EL educates 155 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by YANTIS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so YANTIS EL sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Within YANTIS ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 305 students, YANTIS EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, YANTIS EL logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting YANTIS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at YANTIS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Wood County's rate of about 58%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, YANTIS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wood County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,300, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wood County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,349 students), YANTIS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is YANTIS SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YANTIS EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 205 students in 2018 compared to 155 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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