Emery Elementary School

Size

Emery Elementary School is the 19th largest of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD's 59 elementary schools; its 974 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 933 students, so Emery 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 156 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 113, against an average of 139 per grade. This year grade 5 has 24% more students than kindergarten (140 against 113). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 126 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 52.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (45.8%). Black students are next, at 34.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.8% across Cypress-Fairbanks 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

Emery Elementary School has 64.94 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 974 students would have about 65.8 teachers, so Emery 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 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 McFee Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in the same district. There are 39 elementary schools within 5 miles and 91 within 10 miles.

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