Simms Elementary School

Size

Simms Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Texas City ISD's 6 elementary schools; its 482 students are 6.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.4 miles away and have a median of 457 students, so Simms 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 96 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 67, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (79 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 62.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas City ISD (28.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 19.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.2% across Texas City 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

Simms Elementary School has 32.15 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 482 students would have about 32.6 teachers, so Simms 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

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Ignite Community School - Mainland, 1.2 miles away in Texas College Preparatory Academies. There are 8 elementary schools within 5 miles and 25 within 10 miles.

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