Hidden Cove STEAM Academy

Size

Hidden Cove STEAM Academy is the smallest of Southwest ISD's 11 elementary schools; its 453 students are 3.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 551 students, so Hidden Cove STEAM Academy is close to their typical size.

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 4 with 76 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 56, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 5 has 25% more students than kindergarten (70 against 56). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 60 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 93.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Southwest ISD (89.3%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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

Hidden Cove STEAM Academy has 36.35 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 453 students would have about 30.6 teachers, so Hidden Cove STEAM Academy has 5.8 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Indian Creek Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 25 elementary schools within 5 miles and 129 within 10 miles.

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