McGown Elementary School

Size

McGown Elementary School is the largest of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD's 59 elementary schools; its 1,408 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 1,074 students, so McGown Elementary School 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 236 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 100, against an average of 201 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% more students than kindergarten (225 against 199). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 100 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Asian students are the largest group, at 32.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (10.3%). White students are next, at 30.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

11.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.8% across Cypress-Fairbanks 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

McGown Elementary School has 79.67 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,408 students would have about 95.1 teachers, so McGown Elementary School has 15.4 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Wells Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 21 elementary schools within 5 miles and 74 within 10 miles.

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