Ross Elementary School

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Ector County ISD, Ross Elementary School is the 17th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 480 students, so Ross 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 kindergarten with 94 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 52, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% fewer students than kindergarten (75 against 94). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 67.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ector County ISD (81.4%). White students are next, at 19.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.5% across Ector County 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

Ross Elementary School has 29.57 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 512 students would have about 34.6 teachers, so Ross Elementary School has 5 fewer.

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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Goliad Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 28 within 10 miles.

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