Bastian Elementary School

Size

Of the 178 elementary schools in Houston ISD, Bastian Elementary School is the 54th largest, with 0.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 334; Bastian Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 2 with 119 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 58, against an average of 90 per grade. This year grade 5 has 33% fewer students than kindergarten (58 against 86). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 89 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 65.4% here and 20.8% across Houston ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 31.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

98.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 32 full-time-equivalent teachers for 633 students, Bastian Elementary School has 19.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 633 students would have about 42.8 teachers, so Bastian Elementary School has 10.8 fewer.

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

Location

Bastian Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Alcott Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 203 other elementary schools, 49 of them within 5 miles.

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