Oates Elementary School

Size

Oates Elementary School is the 172nd largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 233 students are 0.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 392; Oates 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 47 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 25, against an average of 33 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (25 against 31). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 47 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 83.7% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. Black students are next, at 14.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 18.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 233 students, Oates Elementary School has 12.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 233 students would have about 15.7 teachers, so Oates Elementary School has 3.2 more.

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

Location

Oates Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Whittier Elementary School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 181 other elementary schools, 43 of them within 5 miles.

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