Aiken Elementary School

Size

Of the 31 elementary schools in Brownsville ISD, Aiken Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 1.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 578; Aiken Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 160 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 70, against an average of 90 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 74 in kindergarten and 80 in grade 5. It also enrolls 160 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 99% here and 98.5% across Brownsville ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.3% across Brownsville ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 37.59 full-time-equivalent teachers for 630 students, Aiken Elementary School has 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 630 students would have about 42.6 teachers, so Aiken Elementary School has 5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Aiken Elementary School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Frontier Academy, 1.1 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 39 other elementary schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.