Tipps Elementary School

Size

Tipps Elementary School is the 18th largest of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD's 59 elementary schools; its 980 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 749 students, so Tipps 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 1 with 157 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 120, against an average of 140 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (146 against 133). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 123 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 70.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (45.8%). Black students are next, at 18.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.8% across Cypress-Fairbanks 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

Tipps Elementary School has 60.81 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 980 students would have about 66.2 teachers, so Tipps Elementary School has 5.4 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 Wilson Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 36 elementary schools within 5 miles and 114 within 10 miles.

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