Ware Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Longview ISD, Ware Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 5.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.7 miles away and have a median of 554 students, so Ware Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 95 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 68, against an average of 82 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 91 in grade 1 and 87 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 66.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Longview ISD (42.9%). Black students are next, at 28.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.4% across Longview 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

Ware Elementary School has 31.22 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 411 students would have about 27.8 teachers, so Ware Elementary School has 3.4 more.

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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Clarence W Bailey Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 16 within 10 miles.

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