Postma Elementary School

Size

Of the 59 elementary schools in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Postma Elementary School is the 49th largest, with 0.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 1,027 students, so Postma 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 2 with 123 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 65, against an average of 108 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% more students than kindergarten (111 against 96). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 65 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 31.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (45.8%). Black students are next, at 26%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

49% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.8% across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Postma Elementary School has 50.71 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 753 students would have about 50.9 teachers, so Postma Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 Byrd Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 31 elementary schools within 5 miles and 85 within 10 miles.

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