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Enrollment
585
Elementary
DISTRICT 624 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FRENSHIP ISD·NCES 481983005720
North Ridge Elementary School
6302 11TH PL, LUBBOCK, TX 79416 · (806) 793-6686 · Lubbock County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL585 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Texas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
340 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 47 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
50.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -13.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
42.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -8.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 24.0% | 26.0% | 29.0% | 21.0% |
| Mathematics | 19.0% | 23.0% | 27.0% | 31.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 42.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 65.0% | 59.0% |
| 2021-22 | 60.0% | 80.0% |
| 2020-21 | 63.0% | 50.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like North Ridge Elementary School
North Ridge Elementary School's state test result (47.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Ridge Elementary School this school | 585 | 58.1% | 47.1% |
| Martin De Leon Elementary School VICTORIA | 531 | 58.6% | 46.2% |
| Willow Creek Elementary School SAGINAW | 641 | 57.4% | 44.9% |
| Westwind Elementary School LUBBOCK | 613 | 54.3% | 38.8% |
| Tradition Elementary School ST HEDWIG | 561 | 60.2% | 30.1% |
| Durham Elementary School HOUSTON | 547 | 58.0% | 49.0% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where North Ridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Lubbock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #1,720 of 4,401 | #20 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #2,615 of 4,466 ▼ 488 | #29 of 52 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #2,509 of 4,466 ▼ 497 | #29 of 52 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -16.0pp | #136 of 3,998 | #5 of 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 585 | #1,725 of 4,938 | #13 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,261 of 4,622 | #32 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #1,905 of 4,628 | #22 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #3,211 of 4,789 | #31 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #1,981 of 2,838 | #25 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
585
-114 (-16%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 589
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 585 | 39.5 | 14.8:1 | 58% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 745 | 43.9 | 16.9:1 | 66% (490) |
| 2022-23 | 738 | 43 | 17.2:1 | 63% (465) |
| 2020-21 | 699 | 44 | 15.9:1 | 54% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 654 | 41.5 | 15.8:1 | 44% (289) |
| 2015-16 | 696 | 39 | 17.9:1 | 47% (327) |
| 2010-11 | 795 | 48 | 16.6:1 | 35% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 718 | 42 | 17.1:1 | 43% (311) |
| 1990-91 | 589 | 32 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for North Ridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (654 to 585); teachers down 5% (41.5 to 39.5).
About North Ridge Elementary School
LUBBOCK, Texas, is home to North Ridge Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It has an enrollment of 585 students in pre-K through 5.
FRENSHIP ISD has 14 schools; together they serve 11,770 students.
More than half of the students at North Ridge Elementary School are Hispanic (61%). Next come 27% White, 5% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 36% Hispanic among all Lubbock County residents. The diversity index for North Ridge Elementary School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 15.1:1. About 58% of students at North Ridge Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Lubbock County average a similar 57%.
On the allk12 Grade, North Ridge Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 45% of Texas public elementary schools.
North Ridge Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 47.1% is 1.7 points below the 48.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is Lubbock County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $64,155, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 110 public schools in the county, enrolling about 52,301, North Ridge Elementary School among them.
Premier H S of Lubbock is the nearest public school to North Ridge Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of North Ridge Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, North Ridge Elementary School is 2nd of 8 on proficiency.
The federal government classifies North Ridge Elementary School's location as City: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 16% decline, from 699 to 585. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.9:1 to 14.8:1.
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Lubbock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
318,884
Census ACS
Median income
$64,155
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
52,301 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FRENSHIP ISD
- Frenship High SchoolHigh · 3,422 students
- Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 821 students
- Terra Vista Middle SchoolMiddle · 760 students
- Willow Bend Elementary SchoolElementary · 749 students
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Upland Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 652 students
Other schools in LUBBOCK
- Monterey High SchoolHigh · 2,117 students
- Lubbock High SchoolHigh · 1,927 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,878 students
- Lubbock-Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,856 students
- Lubbock-Cooper Middle SchoolMiddle · 901 students
- Lubbock-Cooper East Elementary SchoolElementary · 857 students
Other North Ridge Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named North Ridge Elementary. North Ridge Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 6.
- North Ridge Elementary SchoolNORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TX · 510 students
- North Ridge ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 730 students
- North Ridge ElementaryMoreno Valley, CA · 700 students
- North Ridge ElementaryGrimes, IA · 412 students
- North Ridge ElementaryWaverly, IA · 397 students
Nearby schools
- Premier H S of Lubbock0.8 mi · 175
- Terra Vista Middle School1.1 mi · 760
- Hardwick Elementary School1.3 mi · 534
- Mackenzie Middle School1.5 mi · 413
- Legacy Elementary School1.9 mi · 579
- Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock2.0 mi · 559
Frequently asked questions
About North Ridge Elementary SchoolHow many students attend North Ridge Elementary School?
North Ridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 585 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does North Ridge Elementary School serve?
North Ridge Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at North Ridge Elementary School?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at North Ridge Elementary School.
How diverse is North Ridge Elementary School?
North Ridge Elementary School reports a student body of 27% White, 61% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is North Ridge Elementary School in?
North Ridge Elementary School is part of FRENSHIP ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.