Elm Creek Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Southwest ISD, Elm Creek Elementary School is the largest, with 5.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 5.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 663; Elm Creek 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 137 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 92, against an average of 115 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (103 against 116). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 92 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91.1% here and 89.3% across Southwest ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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 51.14 full-time-equivalent teachers for 805 students, Elm Creek Elementary School has 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 805 students would have about 54.4 teachers, so Elm Creek Elementary School has 3.3 fewer.

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

Location

Elm Creek Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Southwest Elementary School, 4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 35 other elementary schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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