Salado Elementary School

Size

Salado Elementary School is the 5th largest of East Central ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 688 students are 6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 690 students, so Salado 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 124 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 61, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% more students than kindergarten (124 against 97). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 61 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 91.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across East Central ISD (73.3%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across East Central 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

Salado Elementary School has 41.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 688 students would have about 46.5 teachers, so Salado 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Pecan Valley Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 21 elementary schools within 5 miles and 98 within 10 miles.

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