Kenneth E Little Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Dickinson ISD, Kenneth E Little Elementary School is the smallest, with 4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 637; Kenneth E Little Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

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 2 with 120 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 66, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 3 has 15% more students than kindergarten (110 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 66 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 66.7% here and 53% across Dickinson ISD. White students are next, at 23.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 62.3% across Dickinson 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 35.53 full-time-equivalent teachers for 505 students, Kenneth E Little Elementary School has 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 505 students would have about 34.1 teachers, so Kenneth E Little Elementary School has 1.4 more.

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

Location

Kenneth E Little 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 Sandra Mossman Elementary School, 2 miles away in Clear Creek ISD. Within 10 miles there are 39 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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