H F McNeill Elementary School

Size

H F McNeill Elementary School is the 4th largest of Lamar CISD's 33 elementary schools; its 926 students are 2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 885; H F McNeill 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 174 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 86, against an average of 132 per grade. This year grade 5 has 71% more students than kindergarten (174 against 102). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 86 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 31.6% here and 23.8% across Lamar CISD. Asian students are next, at 25.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

37.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 43% across Lamar CISD 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 54 full-time-equivalent teachers for 926 students, H F McNeill Elementary School has 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 926 students would have about 62.6 teachers, so H F McNeill Elementary School has 8.6 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 F McNeill 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 Sue Creech Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in Katy ISD. Within 10 miles there are 114 other elementary schools, 29 of them within 5 miles.

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