Ramirez Elementary School

Size

Ramirez Elementary School is the 9th largest of Lubbock ISD's 29 elementary schools; its 470 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 346; Ramirez 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 kindergarten with 72 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 60, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (65 against 72). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 70.9% here and 61% across Lubbock ISD. White students are next, at 14.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.1% across Lubbock 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 37.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 470 students, Ramirez Elementary School has 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 470 students would have about 31.8 teachers, so Ramirez Elementary School has 6.1 more.

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

Location

Ramirez Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Betty M Condra School for Education Innovation, 0.5 miles away in Betty M Condra School for Education Innovation. Within 10 miles there are 45 other elementary schools, 27 of them within 5 miles.

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