Sky Harbour Elementary School

Size

Sky Harbour Elementary School is the 8th largest of Southwest ISD's 11 elementary schools; its 595 students are 4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 513; Sky Harbour 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 105 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 60, against an average of 85 per grade. This year grade 5 has 36% more students than kindergarten (105 against 77). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 82 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 95.6% here and 89.3% across Southwest ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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

With 40.6 full-time-equivalent teachers for 595 students, Sky Harbour Elementary School has 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 595 students would have about 40.2 teachers, so Sky Harbour 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

Sky Harbour Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Indian Creek Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 118 other elementary schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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