Energized for Excellence Academy Elementary School

Size

Of the 178 elementary schools in Houston ISD, Energized for Excellence Academy Elementary School is the 14th largest, with 0.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 758; Energized for Excellence Academy Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 5 with 178 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 126, against an average of 143 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (178 against 140). 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: 90.8% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

98% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 30.91 full-time-equivalent teachers for 857 students, Energized for Excellence Academy Elementary School has 27.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 857 students would have about 57.9 teachers, so Energized for Excellence Academy Elementary School has 27 fewer.

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

Location

Energized for Excellence Academy Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Braeburn Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 210 other elementary schools, 69 of them within 5 miles.

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