Martin Walker Elementary School

Size

Martin Walker Elementary School is the smallest of Copperas Cove ISD's 6 elementary schools; its 355 students are 4.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.7 miles away and have a median of 589 students, so Martin Walker Elementary School is smaller 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 2 with 65 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 54, against an average of 59 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% fewer students than kindergarten (54 against 62). 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

White students are the largest group, at 43.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Copperas Cove ISD (33.5%). Hispanic students are next, at 29.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

55.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 57.4% across Copperas Cove ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Martin Walker Elementary School has 32.94 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 355 students would have about 24 teachers, so Martin Walker Elementary School has 8.9 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is C R Clements/Hollie Parsons Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 7 elementary schools within 5 miles and 21 within 10 miles.

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