Washington Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Port Arthur ISD, Washington Elementary School is the smallest, with 2.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 594; Washington 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 73 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 26, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 2 has 20% more students than kindergarten (73 against 61). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 26 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 56.5% here and 38.5% across Port Arthur ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 37.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.7% across Port Arthur 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 21.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 223 students, Washington Elementary School has 10.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 223 students would have about 15.1 teachers, so Washington Elementary School has 6.9 more.

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

Location

Washington Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Dequeen Elementary School, 2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 17 other elementary schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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