Donna Wernecke Elementary School

Size

Donna Wernecke Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Sharyland ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 631 students are 6.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 467 students, so Donna Wernecke Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 5 with 107 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 36, against an average of 79 per grade. This year grade 6 has 62% more students than kindergarten (94 against 58). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 36 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 94.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Sharyland ISD (93.1%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Sharyland 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

Donna Wernecke Elementary School has 42.07 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 631 students would have about 42.6 teachers, so Donna Wernecke Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 Lucile Hendricks Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in McAllen ISD. There are 38 elementary schools within 5 miles and 113 within 10 miles.

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