Tradition Elementary School

Size

Tradition Elementary School is the 7th largest of East Central ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 561 students are 4.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 6.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 737; Tradition 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 2 with 94 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 73, against an average of 80 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 76 in kindergarten and 81 in grade 5. It also enrolls 79 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 59.4% here and 73.3% across East Central ISD. White students are next, at 28%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

60.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across East Central 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 34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 561 students, Tradition Elementary School has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 561 students would have about 37.9 teachers, so Tradition Elementary School has 3.9 fewer.

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

Location

Tradition Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Honor Elementary School, 3.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 27 other elementary schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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