The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in English language arts. The lowest is 57% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Oak Woods School
Oak Woods School is a public elementary school in Granbury, Texas, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade within Granbury ISD. It sits on Davis Road in a city that has been growing steadily, drawing residents from the broader Fort Worth metro to a community anchored by a historic courthouse square, Lake Granbury, and an active event calendar. The school is mid-sized for its grade band, and a substantial minority of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a mixed economic profile. The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic students making up roughly a fifth of enrollment. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed.
Academic performance is genuinely strong and stands out clearly relative to other districts in Hood County. Across tested subjects and grades, Oak Woods sits in the top quartile when placed against the districts in Hood County, which is a meaningful position in a county where the comparison set includes several smaller rural systems. On the Texas STAAR assessment, the picture is encouraging with some variation worth noting. Reading and language arts results are solid across third, fourth, and fifth grades, with fourth and fifth graders performing particularly well. Fourth-grade math results are also strong. Third-grade math, by contrast, sits noticeably lower than the other grade-level results, which a parent may want to ask the school about directly. Fifth-grade science comes in at a more moderate level, below the school's ELA results. Across all tested subjects combined, nearly nine in ten students reach the approaches-grade-level threshold, and about two-thirds meet grade level, which reflects a school where most students are keeping pace with state expectations. The share reaching the masters level, the highest performance tier, is modest, sitting around a third overall, which is consistent with many solid elementary schools statewide.
Only one year of data is available in what we reviewed, so it is not possible to assess whether these results represent an improving, declining, or stable trajectory. That gap is worth noting.
Because Oak Woods serves only through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate, and the school does not offer AP or career-and-technical pathways. Those measures simply do not apply at this level.
The district context matters here. Granbury ISD voters have rejected a facilities bond three separate times in recent years, most recently in 2024. The failed measure would have funded a new elementary school, renovations across most campuses, new buses, and a transportation center. None of that work has been funded, and families thinking about building capacity and campus conditions should factor that in. On the positive side, voters approved a tax rate election in late 2023 that directs additional funding toward teacher pay increases, smaller class sizes, and campus security, a real and lasting change to daily school conditions. The district has also reduced its property tax rate for ten consecutive years, which matters for families buying into the area. Granbury ISD also drew public attention beginning in 2022 for pulling a large number of library books and facing a federal Title IX investigation; most books were later returned, but the episode and the district's revised review process are factors some parents will want to understand more fully.
The housing market around the school reflects Granbury's growth momentum. Home values sit meaningfully above the Texas state median and above the national median, having risen sharply in recent years, though the most recent data shows values roughly flat year over year. Rents, by contrast, are moving upward. Granbury is adding new residential development at a fast pace, with a large mixed-use lakefront project underway and numerous new subdivisions across the area, so the community around this school is likely to keep growing.
For families with elementary-age children who want solid academic results, a school that performs well within its county peer set, and a community with an active small-town character and proximity to Fort Worth, Oak Woods presents a genuinely competitive option. The unresolved facilities picture at the district level and the variation in third-grade math are the two threads worth pulling on before making a decision.
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