Fairmont Elementary School

Size

Fairmont Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Deer Park ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 776 students are 6.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 547 students, so Fairmont 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 149 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 102, against an average of 129 per grade. This year grade 5 has 46% more students than kindergarten (149 against 102). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 53% of enrollment, a lower share than across Deer Park ISD (64.5%). White students are next, at 39.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

34.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.6% across Deer Park ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Fairmont Elementary School has 48.78 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 776 students would have about 52.4 teachers, so Fairmont Elementary School has 3.6 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Ignite Community School - Pasadena, 0.7 miles away in Texas College Preparatory Academies. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 108 within 10 miles.

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