Edith & Ethel Carman Elementary School

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD, Edith & Ethel Carman Elementary School is the 5th largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 578 students, so Edith & Ethel Carman 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 pre-K with 143 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 82, against an average of 98 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 90 in kindergarten and 90 in grade 5. It also enrolls 143 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (98.8%).

84.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo 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

Edith & Ethel Carman Elementary School has 39.87 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 686 students would have about 46.4 teachers, so Edith & Ethel Carman Elementary School has 6.5 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 Alfred Sorensen Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 35 elementary schools within 5 miles and 106 within 10 miles.

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