Ned E Williams Elementary School

Size

Ned E Williams Elementary School is the 7th largest of Longview ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 352 students are 4.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 7.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 438; Ned E Williams Elementary School is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 82 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 3, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 5 has 1,540% more students than kindergarten (82 against 5). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 3 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 53.4% here and 34.4% across Longview ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 34.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.4% across Longview 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 30.26 full-time-equivalent teachers for 352 students, Ned E Williams Elementary School has 11.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 352 students would have about 23.8 teachers, so Ned E Williams Elementary School has 6.5 more.

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

Location

Ned E Williams Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Hudson Elementary School, 4.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 10 other elementary schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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