Fenwick Academy

Size

Fenwick Academy is the 16th largest of San Antonio ISD's 48 elementary schools; its 593 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 442; Fenwick 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 grade 3 with 66 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 42, against an average of 59 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% more students than kindergarten (63 against 53). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 63 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 94.9% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio 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 43.65 full-time-equivalent teachers for 593 students, Fenwick Academy has 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 593 students would have about 40.1 teachers, so Fenwick Academy has 3.5 more.

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

Location

Fenwick Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Madison Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 200 other elementary schools, 71 of them within 5 miles.

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