Southwest Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Belton ISD, Southwest Elementary School is the 10th largest, with 3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 561; Southwest Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

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 77 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 62, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (77 against 65). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 68.9% here and 36.2% across Belton ISD. White students are next, at 19.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42% across Belton 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 32.71 full-time-equivalent teachers for 415 students, Southwest Elementary School has 12.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 415 students would have about 28 teachers, so Southwest Elementary School has 4.7 more.

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

Location

Southwest Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Nolan Creek School, 0.6 miles away in Orenda Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 24 other elementary schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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