South Shaver Elementary School

Size

Of the 36 elementary schools in Pasadena ISD, South Shaver Elementary School is the 16th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 539; South Shaver 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 107 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 56, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 4 has 10% more students than kindergarten (86 against 78). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 56 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 92% here and 82.8% across Pasadena ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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 40.43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 527 students, South Shaver Elementary School has 13 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 527 students would have about 35.6 teachers, so South Shaver Elementary School has 4.8 more.

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

Location

South Shaver Elementary School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is L F Smith Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 167 other elementary schools, 53 of them within 5 miles.

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