Education Center International Academy 1

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Education Center International Academy, Education Center International Academy 1 is the largest, with 59.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 435; Education Center International Academy 1 is smaller 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 23 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 12, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 6 has 48% fewer students than kindergarten (12 against 23). 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 Hispanic students: 38.9% here and 35.7% across Education Center International Academy. White students are next, at 31.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 54.8% across Education Center International Academy 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 8.83 full-time-equivalent teachers for 131 students, Education Center International Academy 1 has 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 131 students would have about 8.9 teachers, so Education Center International Academy 1 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

Education Center International Academy 1 is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Austin Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Mesquite ISD. Within 10 miles there are 159 other elementary schools, 45 of them within 5 miles.

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