Black Elementary School

Size

Of the 34 elementary schools in Mesquite ISD, Black Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 517 students, so Black 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 3 with 101 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 52, against an average of 84 per grade. This year grade 5 has 31% more students than kindergarten (94 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 71.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Mesquite ISD (63.9%). Black students are next, at 15.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Mesquite 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

Black Elementary School has 38.97 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 587 students would have about 39.7 teachers, so Black 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy. There are 45 elementary schools within 5 miles and 131 within 10 miles.

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