Northgate Elementary School

Size

Northgate Elementary School is the 10th largest of Spring ISD's 25 elementary schools; its 700 students are 2.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 791 students, so Northgate 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 5 with 120 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 68, against an average of 100 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% more students than kindergarten (120 against 100). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 68 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 55.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Spring ISD (54%). Black students are next, at 31%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.2% across Spring 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

Northgate Elementary School has 42.61 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 700 students would have about 47.3 teachers, so Northgate Elementary School has 4.7 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, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Ford Elementary School, 2.2 miles away in Conroe ISD. There are 27 elementary schools within 5 miles and 88 within 10 miles.

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