Original Research by School Decision on Clearfork El
Clearfork Elementary serves the youngest learners in Andrews ISD, teaching prekindergarten through first grade in a school of roughly seven hundred fifty students. The enrollment is majority Hispanic, with a substantial white minority and very small numbers of students from other racial backgrounds. More than half of Clearfork's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic reality of Andrews County, where oil-and-gas service work anchors daily life.
Andrews is the county seat and only incorporated city in Andrews County, in West Texas near the New Mexico border. It functions as the commercial and educational hub for the surrounding county, mixing residential neighborhoods with a small-town commercial core. The community is described locally as tight-knit and family-oriented, with residents taking pride in schools and civic ties. The city itself is car-dependent, laid out on a numbered-street and lettered-avenue grid around a small downtown where county and city buildings cluster. Schools sit on their own campuses spread across town rather than concentrated downtown. The local economy is built on oil and gas; mining, quarrying and oil-and-gas extraction is the largest employment sector, followed by educational services. Andrews ISD, which operates six schools, is itself a major institutional employer.
Housing in the Andrews zip code is more affordable than the state benchmark and markedly below the national average. Home values have risen modestly year over year, and monthly mortgage costs remain accessible for households with mid-range incomes. The area has seen new single-family construction activity and a planned community in development that will add multifamily housing. Andrews County's population has grown modestly in recent years, though the city of Andrews itself has been roughly flat to slightly declining.
State testing data for Clearfork Elementary was not available, as is typical for schools serving only the earliest grades, which the state does not assess. No data on chronic absenteeism, staff size, discipline, or special education and English learner enrollment rates was provided. The school's comparison metrics against other districts in Andrews County could not be computed because Andrews County contains only one district, and thus no peer comparison is available.
Clearfork sits within a public-school district whose broader strategy and recent changes were not available from public sources, so parents considering this school may want to request that information directly from the district. For families in Andrews seeking early-childhood education in the public system, Clearfork is the elementary option, and its enrollment profile reflects the demographic and economic character of the county overall.
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