Iltexas Lancaster Elementary School

Size

Iltexas Lancaster Elementary School is the 12th largest of International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas)'s 18 elementary schools; its 737 students are 2.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 511; Iltexas Lancaster Elementary School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 2 with 127 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 42, against an average of 105 per grade. This year grade 5 has 25% more students than kindergarten (120 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 42 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 51.4% here and 59.1% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas). Black students are next, at 41.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.7% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) 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 46.95 full-time-equivalent teachers for 737 students, Iltexas Lancaster Elementary School has 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 737 students would have about 49.8 teachers, so Iltexas Lancaster Elementary School has 2.8 fewer.

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

Location

Iltexas Lancaster 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 Rosa Parks/Millbrook Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Lancaster ISD. Within 10 miles there are 92 other elementary schools, 22 of them within 5 miles.

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