East Texas Montessori Prep Academy

Size

East Texas Montessori Prep Academy is the largest of Longview ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 1,039 students are 12.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 438 students, so East Texas Montessori Prep 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 kindergarten with 527 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 512, against an average of 520 per grade. It also enrolls 512 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 43.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Longview ISD (42.9%). Black students are next, at 40.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.4% across Longview 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

East Texas Montessori Prep Academy has 62.29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,039 students would have about 70.2 teachers, so East Texas Montessori Prep Academy has 7.9 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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Hallsville West Elementary School, 1.8 miles away in Hallsville ISD. There are 7 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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