Pearl M Hirsch Elementary School

Size

Pearl M Hirsch Elementary School is the 16th largest of Spring ISD's 25 elementary schools; its 630 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 614; Pearl M Hirsch 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 100 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 77, against an average of 90 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% more students than kindergarten (100 against 87). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 77 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 56.2% here and 54% across Spring ISD. Black students are next, at 30.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 41.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 630 students, Pearl M Hirsch Elementary School has 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 630 students would have about 42.6 teachers, so Pearl M Hirsch Elementary School has 1.1 fewer.

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

Location

Pearl M Hirsch Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Sam Houston State University Charter School, 0.6 miles away in Sam Houston State University Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 99 other elementary schools, 26 of them within 5 miles.

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