Hector P Garcia Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Temple ISD, Hector P Garcia Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 4.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 4.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 468; Hector P Garcia 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 80 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 1, against an average of 57 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (80 against 68). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 1 child in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 80.6% here and 48.9% across Temple ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.4% across Temple 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 29.77 full-time-equivalent teachers for 396 students, Hector P Garcia Elementary School has 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 396 students would have about 26.8 teachers, so Hector P Garcia Elementary School has 3 more.

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

Location

Hector P Garcia Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Jefferson Elementary School, 2.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 22 other elementary schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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