Jefferson Elementary School

Size

Jefferson Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Temple ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 504 students are 5.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.7 miles away and have a median of 454 students, so Jefferson 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 3 with 94 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 77, against an average of 84 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (88 against 77). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 44% of enrollment, a lower share than across Temple ISD (48.9%). White students are next, at 25.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

73.4% of students qualify 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

Jefferson Elementary School has 29.62 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 504 students would have about 34.1 teachers, so Jefferson Elementary School has 4.5 fewer.

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 Kennedy-Powell Elementary School, 2.3 miles away in the same district. There are 6 elementary schools within 5 miles and 23 within 10 miles.

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