Public school / Primary
Thomas El
Abilene, Texas
- NCES ID
- 480744002241
- District
- Abilene ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thomas El is a public primary school in Abilene, Texas, run by Abilene ISD. It enrols 414 students — the 48841st largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
414
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
74.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Abilene ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Abilene H S1,966 students
- 2Cooper H S1,716 students
- 3Mann Middle879 students
- 4Long Early Learning Center809 students
- 5Madison Middle785 students
- 6Craig Middle783 students
- 7Austin El724 students
- 8Clack Middle707 students
- Enrollment−20.4%
- Teachers−25.7%
- Students per teacher+8.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+5.4%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory