H D Hilley Elementary School

Size

Of the 30 elementary schools in Socorro ISD, H D Hilley Elementary School is the 29th largest, with 1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 689; H D Hilley 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 84 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 60, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (81 against 68). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 63 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 97.3% here and 91% across Socorro ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro 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 29.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 483 students, H D Hilley Elementary School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 483 students would have about 32.6 teachers, so H D Hilley Elementary School has 3.1 fewer.

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

Location

H D Hilley 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 IDEA Rio Vista Academy, 1 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 63 other elementary schools, 23 of them within 5 miles.

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