H B Gonzalez Elementary School

Size

H B Gonzalez Elementary School is the 4th largest of Edgewood ISD's 10 elementary schools; its 434 students are 5.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 393; H B Gonzalez 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 4 with 104 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 35, against an average of 62 per grade. This year grade 5 has 45% more students than kindergarten (71 against 49). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 35 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 94.9% here and 96.4% across Edgewood ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood 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 full-time-equivalent teachers for 434 students, H B Gonzalez Elementary School has 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 434 students would have about 29.3 teachers, so H B Gonzalez Elementary School has about as many as that.

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

Location

H B Gonzalez Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Gardendale Pre-K 4 Sa Early Learning, 1.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 182 other elementary schools, 65 of them within 5 miles.

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