Deloras E Thompson Elementary School

Size

Deloras E Thompson Elementary School is the 15th largest of Spring ISD's 25 elementary schools; its 634 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 707; Deloras E Thompson 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 4 with 104 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 76, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% more students than kindergarten (91 against 76). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 80 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 44.2% here and 54% across Spring ISD. Black students are next, at 44%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.2% across Spring 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

With 40.52 full-time-equivalent teachers for 634 students, Deloras E Thompson Elementary School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 634 students would have about 42.8 teachers, so Deloras E Thompson Elementary School has 2.3 fewer.

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

Location

Deloras E Thompson 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 Donna Lewis Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 147 other elementary schools, 42 of them within 5 miles.

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