Southwest Elementary School

Size

Southwest Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Southwest ISD's 11 elementary schools; its 728 students are 4.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4.4 miles away and have a median of 584 students, so Southwest 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 2 with 120 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 83, against an average of 104 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% fewer students than kindergarten (93 against 111). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 83 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 85.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Southwest ISD (89.3%). Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

72.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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

Southwest Elementary School has 48.51 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 728 students would have about 49.2 teachers, so Southwest Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Medio Creek Elementary School, 3.2 miles away in the same district. There are 10 elementary schools within 5 miles and 65 within 10 miles.

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