Wesley Elementary School

Size

Wesley Elementary School is the 154th largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 291 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 421; Wesley 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 pre-K with 61 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 29, against an average of 42 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (29 against 36). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 61 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 67.4% here and 20.8% across Houston ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 29.9%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 22.37 full-time-equivalent teachers for 291 students, Wesley Elementary School has 13 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 291 students would have about 19.7 teachers, so Wesley Elementary School has 2.7 more.

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

Location

Wesley Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Anderson Academy, 0.8 miles away in Aldine ISD. Within 10 miles there are 178 other elementary schools, 63 of them within 5 miles.

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