Dena Kelso Graves Elementary School

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Eagle Pass ISD, Dena Kelso Graves Elementary School is the 3rd largest, with 3.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 431; Dena Kelso Graves 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 100 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 71, against an average of 86 per grade. This year grade 6 has 20% fewer students than grade 1 (78 against 98). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.4% here and 97.1% across Eagle Pass ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 78.3% across Eagle Pass 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 29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 516 students, Dena Kelso Graves Elementary School has 17.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 516 students would have about 34.9 teachers, so Dena Kelso Graves Elementary School has 5.9 fewer.

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

Location

Dena Kelso Graves Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Early Childhood Center, 0.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 17 other elementary schools, 15 of them within 5 miles.

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