Academy of Accelerated Learning

Size

Academy of Accelerated Learning is the only school in Academy of Accelerated Learning Inc, so its 738 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 338 students, so Academy of Accelerated Learning is larger than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools. As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 1 with 90 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 59, against an average of 74 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (59 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 71 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 65.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (53.5%). Black students are next, at 25.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Academy of Accelerated Learning has 43.39 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 738 students would have about 49.9 teachers, so Academy of Accelerated Learning has 6.5 fewer.

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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Gregg Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 63 elementary schools within 5 miles and 186 within 10 miles.

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