V M Adams Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Harlandale ISD, V M Adams Elementary School is the largest, with 6.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 559; V M Adams 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 4 with 123 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 82, against an average of 105 per grade. This year grade 5 has 29% more students than kindergarten (111 against 86). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 82 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 97.7% here and 97.4% across Harlandale ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.5% across Harlandale 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 48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 732 students, V M Adams Elementary School has 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 732 students would have about 49.5 teachers, so V M Adams Elementary School has 1.5 fewer.

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

Location

V M Adams Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Wright Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 144 other elementary schools, 56 of them within 5 miles.

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