Jean & Betty Schmalz Elementary School

Size

Jean & Betty Schmalz Elementary School is the 9th largest of Katy ISD's 46 elementary schools; its 1,172 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 786 students, so Jean & Betty Schmalz Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 193 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 105, against an average of 167 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (164 against 182). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 105 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 53.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Katy ISD (36.4%). Black students are next, at 26.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy 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

Jean & Betty Schmalz Elementary School has 97.59 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,172 students would have about 79.2 teachers, so Jean & Betty Schmalz Elementary School has 18.4 more.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Mayde Creek Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 31 elementary schools within 5 miles and 127 within 10 miles.

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