Willow Bend Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Frenship ISD, Willow Bend Elementary School is the largest, with 6.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 4.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 582; Willow Bend 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 3 with 126 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 82, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% more students than kindergarten (121 against 108). 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: 64.1% here and 50.3% across Frenship ISD. White students are next, at 23.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

57% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 45.7% across Frenship 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 46.29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 749 students, Willow Bend Elementary School has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 749 students would have about 50.6 teachers, so Willow Bend Elementary School has 4.3 fewer.

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

Location

Willow Bend Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Ridgewood Elementary School, 3.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 39 other elementary schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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