Newton Collins Elementary School

Size

Newton Collins Elementary School is the 5th largest of Del Valle ISD's 9 elementary schools; its 600 students are 5.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 447 students, so Newton Collins 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 pre-K with 103 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 63, against an average of 86 per grade. This year grade 5 has 34% fewer students than kindergarten (63 against 95). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 103 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 70.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Del Valle ISD (82.6%). White students are next, at 18.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.1% across Del Valle 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

Newton Collins Elementary School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 600 students would have about 40.5 teachers, so Newton Collins Elementary School has 4.5 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Hillcrest Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 19 elementary schools within 5 miles and 68 within 10 miles.

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