Golden Rule Desoto

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Golden Rule Charter School, Golden Rule Desoto is the 2nd largest, with 31% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 437 students, so Golden Rule Desoto 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 pre-K with 66 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 20, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% fewer students than kindergarten (33 against 41). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 66 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 78.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across Golden Rule Charter School (91.7%). Black students are next, at 16.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.4% across Golden Rule Charter School 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

Golden Rule Desoto has 33.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 402 students would have about 27.2 teachers, so Golden Rule Desoto has 6.8 more.

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 Uplift Gradus Prep Ps, 0.4 miles away in Uplift Education. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 112 within 10 miles.

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