Ambassadors Preparatory Academy

Size

Ambassadors Preparatory Academy is the only school in Ambassadors Preparatory Academy, so its 167 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 6.3 miles away and have a median of 481 students, so Ambassadors Preparatory 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 26 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 10, against an average of 17 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% fewer students than kindergarten (12 against 14). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 26 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 65.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (12.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 24%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Ambassadors Preparatory Academy has 15.98 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 167 students would have about 11.3 teachers, so Ambassadors Preparatory Academy has 4.7 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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Burnet Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Galveston ISD. There are 4 elementary schools within 5 miles and 5 within 10 miles.

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