Roderick R Paige Elementary School

Size

Roderick R Paige Elementary School is the 113th largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 393 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 362 students, so Roderick R Paige 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 70 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 41, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 5 has 52% more students than kindergarten (70 against 46). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 41 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 57.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Black students are next, at 41.5%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Roderick R Paige Elementary School has 26.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 393 students would have about 26.6 teachers, so Roderick R Paige 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Eastex-Jensen Neighborhood School, 0.3 miles away in Texas College Preparatory Academies. There are 59 elementary schools within 5 miles and 192 within 10 miles.

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