Thomas Hancock Elementary School

Size

Of the 36 elementary schools in Pasadena ISD, Thomas Hancock Elementary School is the 35th largest, with 0.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 496 students, so Thomas Hancock 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 3 with 68 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 39, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 4 has 24% more students than kindergarten (62 against 50). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 39 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 56.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). Black students are next, at 33.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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

Thomas Hancock Elementary School has 27.77 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 336 students would have about 22.7 teachers, so Thomas Hancock Elementary School has 5.1 more.

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 Beta Academy, 0.3 miles away in Beta Academy. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 152 within 10 miles.

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