Carolyn and Vernon Madden Elementary School

Size

Of the 53 elementary schools in Fort Bend ISD, Carolyn and Vernon Madden Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 1.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 797; Carolyn and Vernon Madden 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 161 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 61, against an average of 132 per grade. This year grade 5 has 38% more students than kindergarten (150 against 109). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 61 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Asian students: 63.6% here and 28% across Fort Bend ISD. Black students are next, at 13.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

23.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.5% across Fort Bend 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

With 57.41 full-time-equivalent teachers for 924 students, Carolyn and Vernon Madden Elementary School has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 924 students would have about 62.4 teachers, so Carolyn and Vernon Madden Elementary School has 5 fewer.

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

Location

Carolyn and Vernon Madden 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 Malala Yousafzai, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 124 other elementary schools, 34 of them within 5 miles.

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