Public school / Primary
Clift El
Waxahachie, Texas
- NCES ID
- 484473012617
- District
- Waxahachie ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Clift El is a public primary school in Waxahachie, Texas, run by Waxahachie ISD. It enrols 549 students — the 31679th 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
549
Teachers
37.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.2%
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 Waxahachie 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.
- 1Waxahachie H S2,963 students
- 2Coleman J H829 students
- 3Finley J H816 students
- 4Howard J H758 students
- 5Wedgeworth El702 students
- 6Simpson El627 students
- 7Felty El570 students
- 8Clift El549 students
- Enrollment+5.6%
- Teachers+5.7%
- Students per teacher+1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−10.7%
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