Horizon Montessori II - STEM Academy

Size

Horizon Montessori II - STEM Academy is the 2nd largest of Horizon Montessori Public Schools' 4 elementary schools; its 326 students are 28% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 710; Horizon Montessori II - STEM Academy is smaller 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 pre-K with 63 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 21, against an average of 33 per grade. This year grade 8 has 41% fewer students than kindergarten (24 against 41). 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: 96.6% here and 86.3% across Horizon Montessori Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.9% across Horizon Montessori Public Schools 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 21.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 326 students, Horizon Montessori II - STEM Academy has 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 326 students would have about 22 teachers, so Horizon Montessori II - STEM 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 elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Horizon Montessori II - STEM Academy is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Cleckler/Heald Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in Weslaco ISD. Within 10 miles there are 58 other elementary schools, 23 of them within 5 miles.

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