Desert Hills Elementary School

Size

Desert Hills Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Clint ISD's 6 elementary schools; its 928 students are 9.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 961 students, so Desert Hills 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 176 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 88, against an average of 133 per grade. This year grade 5 has 45% more students than kindergarten (159 against 110). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 88 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 94.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Clint ISD (95.4%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 85.9% across Clint 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

Desert Hills Elementary School has 57.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 928 students would have about 62.7 teachers, so Desert Hills Elementary School has 5.3 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Carroll T Welch Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 56 within 10 miles.

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