Judith Zaffirini Elementary School

Size

Of the 30 elementary schools in United ISD, Judith Zaffirini Elementary School is the 16th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 597; Judith Zaffirini 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 pre-K with 121 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 77, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (88 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 121 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.1% here and 98.7% across United ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75% across United 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 38.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 618 students, Judith Zaffirini Elementary School has 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 618 students would have about 41.8 teachers, so Judith Zaffirini Elementary School has 3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Judith Zaffirini Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bonnie L Garcia Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 48 other elementary schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

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