Miss May Vernon Elementary School

Size

Of the 7 elementary schools in Royse City ISD, Miss May Vernon Elementary School is the largest, with 7.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.7 miles away and have a median of 582 students, so Miss May Vernon 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 3 with 143 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 6, against an average of 113 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (140 against 127). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 6 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 46.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Royse City ISD (39.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 26.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

34.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 43.3% across Royse City 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

Miss May Vernon Elementary School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 790 students would have about 53.4 teachers, so Miss May Vernon Elementary School has 5.4 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Billie Stevenson Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Rockwall ISD. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 36 within 10 miles.

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