Russell & Cindi Faldyn Elementary School

Size

Russell & Cindi Faldyn Elementary School is the 5th largest of Katy ISD's 46 elementary schools; its 1,263 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 950 students, so Russell & Cindi Faldyn 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 grade 5 with 209 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 134, against an average of 180 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% more students than kindergarten (209 against 178). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 134 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 39.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Katy ISD (36.4%). Black students are next, at 35.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. 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

Russell & Cindi Faldyn Elementary School has 92.89 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,263 students would have about 85.3 teachers, so Russell & Cindi Faldyn Elementary School has 7.6 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 Zelma Hutsell Elementary School, 1.9 miles away in the same district. There are 17 elementary schools within 5 miles and 79 within 10 miles.

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