Cottonwood Creek Elementary School

Size

Cottonwood Creek Elementary School is the largest of Hutto ISD's 7 elementary schools; its 925 students are 8.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 751; Cottonwood Creek 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 150 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 96, against an average of 132 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (127 against 141). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 96 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 51.2% here and 47.4% across Hutto ISD. White students are next, at 24.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.2% across Hutto 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 53.89 full-time-equivalent teachers for 925 students, Cottonwood Creek Elementary School has 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 925 students would have about 62.5 teachers, so Cottonwood Creek Elementary School has 8.6 fewer.

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

Location

Cottonwood Creek 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 Hutto Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 47 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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