Willow Creek Elementary School

Size

Of the 12 elementary schools in Tomball ISD, Willow Creek Elementary School is the 8th largest, with 3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 788 students, so Willow Creek 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 4 with 159 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 40, against an average of 115 per grade. This year grade 4 has 71% more students than kindergarten (159 against 93). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 40 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 41.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Tomball ISD (43.6%). Hispanic students are next, at 23.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

39.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Tomball 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

Willow Creek Elementary School has 46.93 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 687 students would have about 46.4 teachers, so Willow Creek 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 Canyon Pointe Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 17 elementary schools within 5 miles and 81 within 10 miles.

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