Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet

Size

Of the 36 elementary schools in Richardson ISD, Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet is the 10th largest, with 1.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 682; Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet 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 103 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 64, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 6 has 58% more students than kindergarten (101 against 64). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 85 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 53.3% here and 19.7% across Richardson ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 28.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 52.6% across Richardson 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 45.06 full-time-equivalent teachers for 659 students, Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet has 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 659 students would have about 44.5 teachers, so Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet 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

Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Stults Road Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 194 other elementary schools, 54 of them within 5 miles.

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