The Varnett School - Northeast

Size

The Varnett School - Northeast is the 2nd largest of The Varnett Public School's 3 elementary schools; its 354 students are 30.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 448 students, so The Varnett School - Northeast is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 4 with 47 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 18, against an average of 35 per grade. This year grade 8 has 33% fewer students than kindergarten (30 against 45). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 72.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across The Varnett Public School (75.8%). Black students are next, at 26.6%.

99.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.5% across The Varnett Public School 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

The Varnett School - Northeast has 22.24 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 354 students would have about 23.9 teachers, so The Varnett School - Northeast has 1.7 fewer.

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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Hilliard Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 33 elementary schools within 5 miles and 161 within 10 miles.

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