Gladys Polk Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Brazosport ISD, Gladys Polk Elementary School is the 8th largest, with 3.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 553; Gladys Polk 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 3 with 72 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 52, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 4 has 11% more students than kindergarten (72 against 65). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 47.5% here and 56.8% across Brazosport ISD. White students are next, at 35.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 56.5% across Brazosport 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 29.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 396 students, Gladys Polk Elementary School has 13.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 396 students would have about 26.8 teachers, so Gladys Polk Elementary School has 2.4 more.

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

Location

Gladys Polk Elementary School is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, small. The nearest other elementary school is Griffith Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 15 other elementary schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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