Agnes Cotton Academy

Size

Agnes Cotton Academy is the 6th largest of San Antonio ISD's 14 middle schools; its 455 students are 1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 534; Agnes Cotton Academy is close to their typical size.

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 4 with 86 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 63, against an average of 76 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% fewer students than grade 3 (63 against 78). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 93.2% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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

With 33.76 full-time-equivalent teachers for 455 students, Agnes Cotton Academy has 13.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 455 students would have about 31.6 teachers, so Agnes Cotton Academy has 2.2 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Agnes Cotton Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Whittier Middle School, 1.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 56 other middle schools, 15 of them within 5 miles.

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