Garcia-Leza EC/PK/K

Size

Garcia-Leza EC/PK/K is the 17th largest of Aldine ISD's 47 elementary schools; its 617 students are 1.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 485; Garcia-Leza EC/PK/K 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 pre-K with 309 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 308, against an average of 309 per grade. It also enrolls 309 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 89.3% here and 75.2% across Aldine ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Aldine 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 38.38 full-time-equivalent teachers for 617 students, Garcia-Leza EC/PK/K has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 617 students would have about 41.7 teachers, so Garcia-Leza EC/PK/K 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

Garcia-Leza EC/PK/K is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Escamilla Elementary School, 0.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 161 other elementary schools, 40 of them within 5 miles.

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