Accelerated Interdisciplinary Academy

Size

Accelerated Interdisciplinary Academy is the only elementary school in Accelerated Intermediate Academy. Its 161 students are 88.5% of the district's 182. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 588 students, so Accelerated Interdisciplinary Academy is smaller than most of them.

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 pre-K with 43 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 7, against an average of 20 per grade. This year grade 6 has 32% fewer students than kindergarten (15 against 22). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 43 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 51.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Accelerated Intermediate Academy (48.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 44.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

99.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 98.4% across Accelerated Intermediate Academy 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Accelerated Interdisciplinary Academy has 8.28 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 161 students would have about 10.9 teachers, so Accelerated Interdisciplinary Academy has 2.6 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. Meyerpark Elementary School (in Meyerpark Charter) is listed at the same location. There are 55 elementary schools within 5 miles and 183 within 10 miles.

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