Shadow Oaks Elementary School

Size

Of the 24 elementary schools in Spring Branch ISD, Shadow Oaks Elementary School is the 18th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 635 students, so Shadow Oaks 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 5 with 90 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 35, against an average of 70 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% more students than kindergarten (90 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 35 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 85% of enrollment, a higher share than across Spring Branch ISD (55.5%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.6% across Spring Branch 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

Shadow Oaks Elementary School has 36.13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 487 students would have about 32.9 teachers, so Shadow Oaks Elementary School has 3.2 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 Bendwood School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 175 within 10 miles.

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