McMasters Elementary School

Size

McMasters Elementary School is the 34th largest of Pasadena ISD's 36 elementary schools; its 339 students are 0.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 505 students, so McMasters 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 69 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 48, against an average of 57 per grade. This year grade 4 has 17% more students than kindergarten (56 against 48). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 54 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 85.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). White students are next, at 10.3%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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

McMasters Elementary School has 30.99 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 339 students would have about 22.9 teachers, so McMasters Elementary School has 8.1 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Parkwood Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Deer Park ISD. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 130 within 10 miles.

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