Southern Hills Elementary School

Size

Southern Hills Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Wichita Falls ISD's 14 elementary schools; its 521 students are 4.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3 miles away with a median enrollment of 440; Southern Hills 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 94 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 35, against an average of 74 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% more students than kindergarten (94 against 82). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 35 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 67% here and 40.6% across Wichita Falls ISD. White students are next, at 18.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 67.1% across Wichita Falls 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 30.93 full-time-equivalent teachers for 521 students, Southern Hills Elementary School has 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 521 students would have about 35.2 teachers, so Southern Hills Elementary School has 4.3 fewer.

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

Location

Southern Hills 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 Fain Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 15 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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