Gonzales Elementary School

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Ector County ISD, Gonzales Elementary School is the 24th largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 526 students, so Gonzales 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 80 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 25, against an average of 61 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (80 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 25 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 72.6% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ector County ISD (81.4%). White students are next, at 19.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.5% across Ector County 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

Gonzales Elementary School has 23.72 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 424 students would have about 28.6 teachers, so Gonzales Elementary School has 4.9 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 El Magnet at Reagan Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. There are 21 elementary schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

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