Bear Creek Elementary School

Size

Bear Creek Elementary School is the 42nd largest of Katy ISD's 46 elementary schools; its 631 students are 0.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 768; Bear Creek 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 2 with 109 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 59, against an average of 90 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% more students than kindergarten (101 against 79). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 59 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 73.1% here and 36.4% across Katy ISD. Black students are next, at 14.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy 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 55.11 full-time-equivalent teachers for 631 students, Bear Creek Elementary School has 11.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 631 students would have about 42.6 teachers, so Bear Creek Elementary School has 12.5 more.

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

Location

Bear Creek Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Harmony School of Achievement - Houston, 0.5 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - Houston North. Within 10 miles there are 126 other elementary schools, 26 of them within 5 miles.

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