Nash Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Texarkana ISD, Nash Elementary School is the largest, with 9.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 344 students, so Nash 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 4 with 124 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 60, against an average of 95 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (78 against 100). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 60 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 35.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texarkana ISD (21%). Black students are next, at 34.5%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75% across Texarkana 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

Nash Elementary School has 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 667 students would have about 45.1 teachers, so Nash Elementary School has 1.8 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, small, which means it is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Waggoner Creek Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 13 elementary schools within 5 miles and 15 within 10 miles.

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