Gene M Reed Elementary School

Size

Of the 16 elementary schools in Allen ISD, Gene M Reed Elementary School is the 15th largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 683; Gene M Reed Elementary School is smaller 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 6 with 91 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 61, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 6 has 44% more students than kindergarten (91 against 63). 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

The largest group is White students: 42.6% here and 34.7% across Allen ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 23.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

43.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 22% across Allen 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

With 39.73 full-time-equivalent teachers for 486 students, Gene M Reed Elementary School has 12.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 486 students would have about 32.8 teachers, so Gene M Reed Elementary School has 6.9 more.

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

Location

Gene M Reed Elementary School 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 James and Margie Marion Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 123 other elementary schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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