Roberta Wright Rylander Elementary School

Size

Of the 46 elementary schools in Katy ISD, Roberta Wright Rylander Elementary School is the 15th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 868 students, so Roberta Wright Rylander 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 186 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 74, against an average of 148 per grade. This year grade 5 has 46% more students than kindergarten (186 against 127). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 74 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 36.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Katy ISD (36.4%). White students are next, at 26.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

43.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy 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

Roberta Wright Rylander Elementary School has 81.36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,034 students would have about 69.9 teachers, so Roberta Wright Rylander Elementary School has 11.5 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 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 Odessa Kilpatrick Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 90 within 10 miles.

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