Manuel Guajardo Jr. Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Texas City ISD, Manuel Guajardo Jr. Elementary School is the largest, with 6.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 471 students, so Manuel Guajardo Jr. 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 3 with 116 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 81, against an average of 100 per grade. This year grade 4 has 41% more students than kindergarten (114 against 81). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 48.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Texas City ISD (47.8%). White students are next, at 25%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

69.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.2% across Texas City 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

Manuel Guajardo Jr. Elementary School has 35.81 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 501 students would have about 33.9 teachers, so Manuel Guajardo Jr. Elementary School has 1.9 more.

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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Kohfeldt Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 5 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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