Frank D Moates Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Desoto ISD, Frank D Moates Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 8.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 426 students, so Frank D Moates 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 5 with 166 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 137, against an average of 156 per grade. This year grade 5 has 21% more students than grade 3 (166 against 137). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 51.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across Desoto ISD (70.2%). Hispanic students are next, at 38.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.6% across Desoto 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

Frank D Moates Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 468 students would have about 31.6 teachers, so Frank D Moates Elementary School has 1.6 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 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 Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy, 1.9 miles away in the same district. There are 21 elementary schools within 5 miles and 68 within 10 miles.

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