Bess Brannen Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Brazosport ISD, Bess Brannen Elementary School is the largest, with 6.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 509; Bess Brannen 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 4 with 152 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 74, against an average of 125 per grade. This year grade 4 has 29% more students than kindergarten (152 against 118). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 74 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 51.4% here and 30.7% across Brazosport ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 38.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

38.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 56.5% across Brazosport 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 47.37 full-time-equivalent teachers for 747 students, Bess Brannen Elementary School has 15.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 747 students would have about 50.5 teachers, so Bess Brannen Elementary School has 3.1 fewer.

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

Location

Bess Brannen Elementary School is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, small. The nearest other elementary school is Gladys Polk Elementary School, 2.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other elementary schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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