Horizon Montessori - STEM Academy

Size

Horizon Montessori - STEM Academy is the largest of Horizon Montessori Public Schools' 4 elementary schools; its 331 students are 28.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 457 students, so Horizon Montessori - 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 8 with 15, against an average of 33 per grade. This year grade 8 has 56% fewer students than kindergarten (15 against 34). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Horizon Montessori Public Schools (86.3%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.3% 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

Horizon Montessori - STEM Academy has 21.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 331 students would have about 22.4 teachers, so Horizon Montessori - 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 - STEM Academy is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Wilson Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in McAllen ISD. Within 10 miles there are 124 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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