Crestview Elementary School

Size

Of the 15 elementary schools in Waco ISD, Crestview Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 3.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 464 students, so Crestview 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 kindergarten with 73 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 47, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (64 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 47 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 60.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Waco ISD (62.5%). Black students are next, at 27.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.1% across Waco 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

Crestview Elementary School has 29.84 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 464 students would have about 31.4 teachers, so Crestview Elementary School has 1.6 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Dean Highland Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 19 elementary schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

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