Mary Lou Hartman

Size

Of the 22 elementary schools in Judson ISD, Mary Lou Hartman is the 13th largest, with 2.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 451; Mary Lou Hartman 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 2 with 106 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 48, against an average of 81 per grade. This year grade 5 has 44% more students than kindergarten (88 against 61). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 48 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 76.2% here and 59.7% across Judson ISD. Black students are next, at 14.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.8% across Judson 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

With 34.36 full-time-equivalent teachers for 568 students, Mary Lou Hartman has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 568 students would have about 38.4 teachers, so Mary Lou Hartman has 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

Mary Lou Hartman is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Walzem Academy, 0.5 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 109 other elementary schools, 41 of them within 5 miles.

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