Los Fresnos Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Los Fresnos CISD, Los Fresnos Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 5.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.5 miles away and have a median of 545 students, so Los Fresnos 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 4 with 95 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 59, against an average of 78 per grade. This year grade 5 has 32% more students than kindergarten (78 against 59). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Los Fresnos CISD (96.8%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 76.8% across Los Fresnos CISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under Provision 2 or 3 of the National School Lunch Program, every student eats at no charge; meal applications are only collected in a base year.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Los Fresnos Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 549 students would have about 37.1 teachers, so Los Fresnos Elementary School has 1.1 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 suburb, midsize, which means it is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Lopez-Riggins Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 8 elementary schools within 5 miles and 38 within 10 miles.

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