Booker T Washington Elementary School

Size

Of the 14 elementary schools in Wichita Falls ISD, Booker T Washington Elementary School is the 11th largest, with 3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.6 miles away and have a median of 460 students, so Booker T Washington 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 5 with 67 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 21, against an average of 54 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (67 against 57). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 21 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 45.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Wichita Falls ISD (14.1%). Hispanic students are next, at 29.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 67.1% across Wichita Falls ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Booker T Washington Elementary School has 22.58 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 377 students would have about 25.5 teachers, so Booker T Washington Elementary School has 2.9 fewer.

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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Scotland Park Elementary School, 2.4 miles away in the same district. There are 8 elementary schools within 5 miles and 15 within 10 miles.

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