Silverlake Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Pearland ISD, Silverlake Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 3.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 708 students, so Silverlake 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 2 with 137 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 52, against an average of 115 per grade. This year grade 4 has 19% more students than kindergarten (134 against 113). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Asian students are the largest group, at 24.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Pearland ISD (12.5%). Black students are next, at 24.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

29.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 36.8% across Pearland 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

Silverlake Elementary School has 41.69 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 691 students would have about 46.7 teachers, so Silverlake 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 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 Silvercrest Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in the same district. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 98 within 10 miles.

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