Guerrero Thompson

Size

Guerrero Thompson is the 22nd largest of Austin ISD's 78 elementary schools; its 548 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 448 students, so Guerrero Thompson 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 pre-K with 122 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 62, against an average of 78 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (62 against 77). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 122 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 92.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Austin ISD (54.4%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin 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

Guerrero Thompson has 38.18 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 548 students would have about 37 teachers, so Guerrero Thompson has 1.2 more.

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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Rundberg Academy, 0.3 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 47 elementary schools within 5 miles and 123 within 10 miles.

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