Tice Elementary School

Size

Tice Elementary School is the 7th largest of Galena Park ISD's 15 elementary schools; its 669 students are 3.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 497 students, so Tice 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 111 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 71, against an average of 96 per grade. This year grade 5 has 32% fewer students than kindergarten (71 against 105). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 94 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 74.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across Galena Park ISD (82.1%). Black students are next, at 21.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.8% across Galena Park 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

Tice Elementary School has 42.54 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 669 students would have about 45.2 teachers, so Tice Elementary School has 2.7 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is The Rhodes School - Humble, 0.5 miles away in The Rhodes School for Performing Arts. There are 35 elementary schools within 5 miles and 129 within 10 miles.

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