Alternative Elementary School

Size

Alternative Elementary School is the smallest of North East ISD's 46 elementary schools; its 11 students are 0% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 448 students, so Alternative Elementary School is smaller 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.

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 5 with 4 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 1, against an average of 2 per grade. This year grade 5 has 300% more students than grade 1 (4 against 1). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 63.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across North East ISD (63.5%). White students are next, at 18.2%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 50.6% across North East ISD 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

Alternative Elementary School has 22.49 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 0.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 11 students would have about 0.7 teachers, so Alternative Elementary School has 21.8 more.

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. Wilshire Elementary School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 39 elementary schools within 5 miles and 157 within 10 miles.

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