John and Polly Townley Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Everman ISD, John and Polly Townley Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 8.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 380; John and Polly Townley 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 1 with 92 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 78, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than grade 1 (83 against 92). 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

The largest group is Black students: 55.7% here and 34.8% across Everman ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 35.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 95.2% across Everman 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

With 27.71 full-time-equivalent teachers for 424 students, John and Polly Townley Elementary School has 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 John and Polly Townley 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 and Polly Townley Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Ann Brock El at Oak Grove, 1.6 miles away in Burleson ISD. Within 10 miles there are 112 other elementary schools, 27 of them within 5 miles.

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