Public school / Primary
Bob and Lola Sanford El
Van Alstyne, Texas
- NCES ID
- 484389013507
- District
- Van Alstyne ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bob and Lola Sanford El is a public primary school in Van Alstyne, Texas, run by Van Alstyne ISD. It enrols 598 students — the 26993rd largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
598
Teachers
38.0
Students per teacher
15.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
26.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Van Alstyne ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Van Alstyne H S632 students
- 2Bob and Lola Sanford El598 students
- 3Van Alstyne J H539 students
- 4John and Nelda Partin El516 students
- Enrollment+15.0%
- Teachers+8.6%
- Students per teacher+7.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−62.7%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory