Democracy Prep at Stewart Academy

Size

Of the 48 elementary schools in San Antonio ISD, Democracy Prep at Stewart Academy is the 10th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 495; Democracy Prep at Stewart Academy 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 3 with 89 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 43, against an average of 65 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 55 in kindergarten and 56 in grade 8. It also enrolls 43 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 89.3% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio 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

With 43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 645 students, Democracy Prep at Stewart Academy has 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 645 students would have about 43.6 teachers, so Democracy Prep at Stewart Academy has about as many as that.

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

Location

Democracy Prep at Stewart Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is M L King Academy, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 139 other elementary schools, 40 of them within 5 miles.

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