Sem Elementary School

Size

Of the 43 elementary schools in Frisco ISD, Sem Elementary School is the 31st largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 570; Sem 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 127 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 1, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 5 has 115% more students than kindergarten (127 against 59). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 1 child in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Asian students: 57.9% here and 43.9% across Frisco ISD. Black students are next, at 15.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

12.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 13.8% across Frisco 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

With 38.71 full-time-equivalent teachers for 561 students, Sem Elementary School has 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 561 students would have about 37.9 teachers, so Sem 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

Sem Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Jim Spradley Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Prosper ISD. Within 10 miles there are 131 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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