Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School

Size

Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School is the only school in Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School, so its 558 students are the district's whole enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 349; Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School is larger 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 grade 4 with 77 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 48, against an average of 62 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (48 against 59). 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 Black students: 97.5% here and 12.8% across Texas public schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.3% of its students are eligible 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

With 35.73 full-time-equivalent teachers for 558 students, Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 558 students would have about 37.7 teachers, so Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School has 2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Beatrice Mayes Institute Charter School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Hartsfield Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 204 other elementary schools, 63 of them within 5 miles.

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