Dr. M L Garza-Gonzalez Charter School

Size

Dr. M L Garza-Gonzalez Charter School is the only school in Dr. M L Garza-Gonzalez Charter School, so its 147 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 432 students, so Dr. M L Garza-Gonzalez Charter 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. 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 20 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 10, against an average of 15 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 16 in kindergarten and 15 in grade 8. It also enrolls 13 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 89.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (53.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.8% of students qualify 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

Dr. M L Garza-Gonzalez Charter School has 8.84 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 147 students would have about 9.9 teachers, so Dr. M L Garza-Gonzalez Charter School has 1.1 fewer.

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. The nearest other elementary school is Kennedy Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in West Oso ISD. There are 24 elementary schools within 5 miles and 38 within 10 miles.

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