Serna Elementary School

Size

Serna Elementary School is the 42nd largest of North East ISD's 46 elementary schools; its 312 students are 0.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 459 students, so Serna Elementary School is smaller 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 2 with 52 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 33, against an average of 45 per grade. This year grade 5 has 37% more students than kindergarten (52 against 38). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 48 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 52.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across North East ISD (63.5%). Black students are next, at 28.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 50.6% across North East 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

Serna Elementary School has 33.43 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 312 students would have about 21.1 teachers, so Serna Elementary School has 12.3 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Clear Spring Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 40 elementary schools within 5 miles and 142 within 10 miles.

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