Hamilton Elementary School

Size

Of the 59 elementary schools in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Hamilton Elementary School is the 14th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 886; Hamilton 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 187 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 50, against an average of 143 per grade. This year grade 5 has 33% more students than kindergarten (187 against 141). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 50 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 52.6% here and 18.9% across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 25.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

25.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.8% across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 61 full-time-equivalent teachers for 999 students, Hamilton Elementary School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 999 students would have about 67.5 teachers, so Hamilton Elementary School has 6.5 fewer.

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

Location

Hamilton 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 Moore Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 104 other elementary schools, 23 of them within 5 miles.

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