Northern Hills Elementary School

Size

Of the 46 elementary schools in North East ISD, Northern Hills Elementary School is the 24th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 632; Northern Hills Elementary School is smaller 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 78 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 64, against an average of 72 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% more students than kindergarten (75 against 64). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 78 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 67.5% here and 63.5% across North East ISD. White students are next, at 16.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

74.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 50.6% across North East 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 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 501 students, Northern Hills Elementary School has 11.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 501 students would have about 33.9 teachers, so Northern Hills Elementary School has 8.6 more.

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

Location

Northern Hills Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Stahl Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 107 other elementary schools, 33 of them within 5 miles.

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