Mims Elementary School

Size

Mims Elementary School is the largest of Mission CISD's 14 elementary schools; its 673 students are 4.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 653 students, so Mims 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 pre-K with 128 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 81, against an average of 96 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (96 against 81). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 128 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 95.5% of enrollment, about the same share as across Mission CISD (97.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

68.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.2% across Mission CISD 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

Mims Elementary School has 39.31 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 673 students would have about 45.5 teachers, so Mims Elementary School has 6.2 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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Hilda C Escobar/Alicia C Rios Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 44 elementary schools within 5 miles and 93 within 10 miles.

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