Nellie Mae Glass Elementary School

Size

Nellie Mae Glass Elementary School is the 8th largest of Eagle Pass ISD's 19 elementary schools; its 438 students are 3.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 443 students, so Nellie Mae Glass 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 3 with 79 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 60, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 6 has 32% more students than grade 1 (79 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Eagle Pass ISD (97.1%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 78.3% across Eagle Pass 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

Nellie Mae Glass Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 438 students would have about 29.6 teachers, so Nellie Mae Glass Elementary School has 5.6 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 Kennedy Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in the same district. There are 14 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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