Bassetti Elementary School

Size

Of the 13 elementary schools in Abilene ISD, Bassetti Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 3.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 492 students, so Bassetti 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 grade 1 with 112 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 1, against an average of 78 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% fewer students than kindergarten (74 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 1 child in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 39.4% of enrollment, a lower share than across Abilene ISD (47.4%). White students are next, at 32.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 68.7% across Abilene 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

Bassetti Elementary School has 36.14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 546 students would have about 36.9 teachers, so Bassetti Elementary School has about as many as that.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Dyess Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 12 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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