Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School

Size

Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School enrolls less than 0.1% of Texas' 5,544,769 public school students and is smaller than the median district (886 students). The largest of its schools is Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies with 236 students, and the smallest is Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies with 46; the average is 105, against 626 statewide. NCES lists Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School as an independent charter district: a charter school operator that is its own local education agency rather than part of a geographic school district.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment. Share = district students ÷ all students in Texas schools listed here; averages = students ÷ schools.

Grades

Kindergarten is its largest grade, with 45 students this year. Grade 12 has 12 students and kindergarten has 45, 73% fewer in the later grade. Each grade is a different group of students, so this is not a dropout or growth rate. Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School enrolls 118 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade, all schools in the district.

Students

Black students are the largest group in Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School at 89.3%, above their 12.8% share of Texas public school students. Hispanic students make up 5.7%.

91.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 61.6% statewide. By school, the share runs from 69.2% at Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies to 100% at Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange. All 4 of its schools serve free breakfast and lunch to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision or Provision 2 or 3, with no application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District and state shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Staff

Its 29.3 full-time-equivalent teachers work out to 14.3 students per teacher, close to the state's 14.9. Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School reports no school counselors to NCES. It reports no librarians or media specialists.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 district staff file (full-time equivalents). Students per counselor = district students ÷ counselors. Benchmark: American School Counselor Association, 250 students per counselor.

Location

NCES classifies Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School's area as city, small: inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest district is Port Arthur ISD, 4.6 miles away with 8,041 students. 14 districts are within 25 miles, and 13 of them enroll more students than Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School. Jefferson County has 9 districts on this site.

Source: NCES EDGE locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines between the average locations of each district's schools.