Smith Elementary School

Size

Smith Elementary School is the 29th largest of Aldine ISD's 47 elementary schools; its 553 students are 1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 557 students, so Smith 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 3 with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 102, against an average of 111 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 111 in grade 1 and 113 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 82.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Aldine ISD (75.2%). Black students are next, at 15.6%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Aldine 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

Smith Elementary School has 32.49 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 553 students would have about 37.4 teachers, so Smith Elementary School has 4.9 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Harmony School of Endeavor-Houston, 0.2 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - Houston North. There are 50 elementary schools within 5 miles and 179 within 10 miles.

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