Big Country Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Southwest ISD, Big Country Elementary School is the 5th largest, with 4.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 548; Big Country 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 4 with 113 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 82, against an average of 94 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (85 against 96). 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 Hispanic students: 85.5% here and 89.3% across Southwest ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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 44.3 full-time-equivalent teachers for 660 students, Big Country Elementary School has 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 660 students would have about 44.6 teachers, so Big Country 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

Big Country 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 IDEA Burke Academy, 0.5 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 120 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

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