Memorial Parkway Elementary School

Size

Of the 46 elementary schools in Katy ISD, Memorial Parkway Elementary School is the 38th largest, with 0.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 868; Memorial Parkway 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 5 with 126 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 69, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 5 has 56% more students than kindergarten (126 against 81). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 69 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 75.4% here and 36.4% across Katy ISD. White students are next, at 12.5%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy 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 71.32 full-time-equivalent teachers for 714 students, Memorial Parkway Elementary School has 10 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 714 students would have about 48.2 teachers, so Memorial Parkway Elementary School has 23.1 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Memorial Parkway Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Jeanette Hayes Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 119 other elementary schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

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