John H Shary Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Sharyland ISD, John H Shary Elementary School is the largest, with 6.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 655 students, so John H Shary 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 6 with 110 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 46, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 6 has 83% more students than kindergarten (110 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 46 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 88.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Sharyland ISD (93.1%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Sharyland 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

John H Shary Elementary School has 40.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 652 students would have about 44.1 teachers, so John H Shary Elementary School has 3.9 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 Bryan Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in Mission CISD. There are 48 elementary schools within 5 miles and 114 within 10 miles.

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