Olivero Garza Sr. Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Sharyland ISD, Olivero Garza Sr. Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 6.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 467 students, so Olivero Garza Sr. 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 grade 5 with 112 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 50, against an average of 81 per grade. This year grade 6 has 23% more students than kindergarten (95 against 77). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 50 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Sharyland ISD (93.1%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Sharyland 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

Olivero Garza Sr. Elementary School has 39.68 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 648 students would have about 43.8 teachers, so Olivero Garza Sr. Elementary School has 4.1 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 Jessie L Jensen Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 110 within 10 miles.

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