Sorters Mill Elementary School

Size

Sorters Mill Elementary School is the 4th largest of New Caney ISD's 11 elementary schools; its 838 students are 4.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 805; Sorters Mill 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 4 with 145 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 85, against an average of 120 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% more students than kindergarten (127 against 103). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 85 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 77.8% here and 63.1% across New Caney ISD. White students are next, at 17.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.5% across New Caney 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

With 53.52 full-time-equivalent teachers for 838 students, Sorters Mill Elementary School has 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 838 students would have about 56.6 teachers, so Sorters Mill Elementary School has 3.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Sorters Mill Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bens Branch Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 54 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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