Gonzales Primary Academy

Size

Gonzales Primary Academy is the only school in Gonzales ISD. Its 157 students are 6.1% of the district's 2,557. The 8 nearest schools are a median 46.5 miles away and have a median of 246 students, so Gonzales Primary Academy is smaller 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

Gonzales Primary Academy serves a single grade, pre-K, with 157 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 79% of enrollment, a higher share than across Gonzales ISD (68.1%). White students are next, at 15.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.5% across Gonzales ISD and a median of 85.7% for Texas 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

Gonzales Primary Academy has 8.49 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 157 students would have about 9.2 teachers, so Gonzales Primary Academy has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (17).

Location

NCES classifies its location as town, distant, which means it is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other school is George W Carver Early Education Center, 29.8 miles away in Lockhart ISD. No other school is within 10 miles.

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