Pecan Valley Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in East Central ISD, Pecan Valley Elementary School is the smallest, with 4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 687 students, so Pecan Valley 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 grade 5 with 74 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 58, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% more students than kindergarten (74 against 58). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 63 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 77.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across East Central ISD (73.3%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across East Central 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

Pecan Valley Elementary School has 33.34 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 457 students would have about 30.9 teachers, so Pecan Valley Elementary School has 2.4 more.

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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Salado Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 29 elementary schools within 5 miles and 115 within 10 miles.

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