Sun Valley Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Southwest ISD, Sun Valley Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 4.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 443; Sun Valley Elementary School is larger 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 3 with 96 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 69, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 5 has 38% more students than kindergarten (95 against 69). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 77 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 87.5% here and 89.3% across Southwest ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.9% of its students are eligible 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

With 45.52 full-time-equivalent teachers for 616 students, Sun Valley Elementary School has 13.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 616 students would have about 41.6 teachers, so Sun Valley Elementary School has 3.9 more.

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

Location

Sun Valley Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Valley Hi Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Northside ISD. Within 10 miles there are 134 other elementary schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

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