Kurth Primary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Lufkin ISD, Kurth Primary School is the 7th largest, with 3.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 257; Kurth Primary 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 88 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 25, against an average of 63 per grade. This year grade 2 has 22% more students than kindergarten (77 against 63). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 25 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 32.8% here and 27.4% across Lufkin ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 32.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Lufkin 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 13.39 full-time-equivalent teachers for 253 students, Kurth Primary School has 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 253 students would have about 17.1 teachers, so Kurth Primary School has 3.7 fewer.

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

Location

Kurth Primary School is in a town more than 35 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, remote. The nearest other elementary school is Sarah Strinden Elementary School, 1 miles away in Pineywoods Community Academy. Within 10 miles there are 17 other elementary schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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