Horizon Montessori Pearland - STEM Academy

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Horizon Montessori Public Schools, Horizon Montessori Pearland - STEM Academy is the smallest, with 18.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 697; Horizon Montessori Pearland - 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 8 with 7, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 8 has 75% fewer students than kindergarten (7 against 28). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 44% here and 86.3% across Horizon Montessori Public Schools. Black students are next, at 24.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.9% 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 13.96 full-time-equivalent teachers for 216 students, Horizon Montessori Pearland - STEM Academy has 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 216 students would have about 14.6 teachers, so Horizon Montessori Pearland - 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 Pearland - 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 C J Harris Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Pearland ISD. Within 10 miles there are 114 other elementary schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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