Lawrence E Elkins High School

Size

Lawrence E Elkins High School is the 2nd largest of Fort Bend ISD's 14 high schools; its 2,848 students are 3.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 5 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,932; Lawrence E Elkins High School is larger 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 9 with 786 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 667, against an average of 712 per grade. This year grade 12 has 15% fewer students than grade 9 (667 against 786). 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 Asian students: 45% here and 28% across Fort Bend ISD. Black students are next, at 26.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

29.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.5% across Fort Bend ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 150.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 2,848 students, Lawrence E Elkins High School has 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,848 students would have about 203.4 teachers, so Lawrence E Elkins High School has 52.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Lawrence E Elkins High School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Hightower High School, 3.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 24 other high schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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