Horizon Montessori III - STEM Academy

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Horizon Montessori Public Schools, Horizon Montessori III - STEM Academy is the 3rd largest, with 25% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 431 students, so Horizon Montessori III - 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 66 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 7, against an average of 29 per grade. This year grade 8 has 35% fewer students than kindergarten (22 against 34). 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 93.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Horizon Montessori Public Schools (86.3%).

70.8% of students qualify 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

Horizon Montessori III - STEM Academy has 19.34 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 291 students would have about 19.7 teachers, so Horizon Montessori III - 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

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Treasure Hills Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Harlingen CISD. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 37 within 10 miles.

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