Chester E Jordan

Size

Of the 30 elementary schools in Socorro ISD, Chester E Jordan is the 14th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 873 students, so Chester E Jordan 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 pre-K with 120 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 95, against an average of 108 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (115 against 101). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 120 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 86.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Socorro ISD (91%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro 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

Chester E Jordan has 44.92 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 755 students would have about 51 teachers, so Chester E Jordan has 6.1 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Sgt Roberto Ituarte, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 20 elementary schools within 5 miles and 59 within 10 miles.

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