Valley Ranch Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in New Caney ISD, Valley Ranch Elementary School is the 10th largest, with 4.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 814 students, so Valley Ranch Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 132 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 67, against an average of 113 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% fewer students than kindergarten (106 against 130). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 67 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 55.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across New Caney ISD (63.1%). White students are next, at 31.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.5% across New Caney ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Valley Ranch Elementary School has 52.65 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 790 students would have about 53.4 teachers, so Valley Ranch Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 Oakley Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 13 elementary schools within 5 miles and 48 within 10 miles.

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