Charles Acton Leadershp Academy

Size

Charles Acton Leadershp Academy is the 2nd largest of Duncanville ISD's 9 elementary schools; its 537 students are 4.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 431; Charles Acton Leadershp Academy is close to their typical size.

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 110 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 73, against an average of 90 per grade. This year grade 4 has 40% more students than kindergarten (102 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 110 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 50.8% here and 55.1% across Duncanville ISD. Black students are next, at 44.9%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 78.1% across Duncanville ISD 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 31.79 full-time-equivalent teachers for 537 students, Charles Acton Leadershp Academy has 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 537 students would have about 36.3 teachers, so Charles Acton Leadershp Academy has 4.5 fewer.

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

Location

Charles Acton Leadershp Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Clint Q Smith Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 155 other elementary schools, 28 of them within 5 miles.

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