J L Everhart Magnet Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Longview ISD, J L Everhart Magnet Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 5.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 439 students, so J L Everhart Magnet Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 4 with 105 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 1, against an average of 71 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than grade 1 (78 against 87). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 53.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Longview ISD (42.9%). Black students are next, at 30%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.4% across Longview 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

J L Everhart Magnet Elementary School has 27.74 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 424 students would have about 28.6 teachers, so J L Everhart Magnet Elementary School 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

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Hallsville West Elementary School, 1.9 miles away in Hallsville ISD. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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