John a Sippel Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Schertz-Cibolo-U City ISD, John a Sippel Elementary School is the 3rd largest, with 4.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 569; John a Sippel 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 4 with 138 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 42, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 4 has 30% more students than kindergarten (138 against 106). 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: 50.2% here and 48% across Schertz-Cibolo-U City ISD. White students are next, at 31%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

34.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 32% across Schertz-Cibolo-U City ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 43.56 full-time-equivalent teachers for 641 students, John a Sippel Elementary School has 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 641 students would have about 43.3 teachers, so John a Sippel 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

John a Sippel 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 Sst Schertz, 0.6 miles away in School of Science and Technology. Within 10 miles there are 47 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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