Escontrias STEAM Academy

Size

Escontrias STEAM Academy is the 13th largest of Socorro ISD's 30 elementary schools; its 824 students are 1.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 532 students, so Escontrias STEAM Academy is larger than most of them.

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 pre-K with 144 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 98, against an average of 118 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (118 against 134). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 144 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97% of enrollment, a higher share than across Socorro ISD (91%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro 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

Escontrias STEAM Academy has 49.81 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 824 students would have about 55.7 teachers, so Escontrias STEAM Academy has 5.9 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Rio Vista Academy, 0.3 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 18 elementary schools within 5 miles and 57 within 10 miles.

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