Lloyd & Dolly Bentsen Elementary School

Size

Lloyd & Dolly Bentsen Elementary School is the 5th largest of Sharyland ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 611 students are 6.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 502 students, so Lloyd & Dolly Bentsen 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 5 with 95 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 39, against an average of 76 per grade. This year grade 6 has 24% more students than kindergarten (77 against 62). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 39 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Sharyland ISD (93.1%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.3% 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

Lloyd & Dolly Bentsen Elementary School has 36.89 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 611 students would have about 41.3 teachers, so Lloyd & Dolly Bentsen Elementary School has 4.4 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Romulo D Martinez Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 32 elementary schools within 5 miles and 105 within 10 miles.

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