Hemmenway Elementary School

Size

Of the 59 elementary schools in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Hemmenway Elementary School is the 24th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 940; Hemmenway 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 146 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 114, against an average of 135 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (146 against 115). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 114 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 59.3% here and 45.8% across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. Black students are next, at 27.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.6% 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. 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 62.68 full-time-equivalent teachers for 947 students, Hemmenway Elementary School has 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 947 students would have about 64 teachers, so Hemmenway Elementary School has 1.3 fewer.

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

Location

Hemmenway 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 Walker Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 83 other elementary schools, 37 of them within 5 miles.

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