IDEA Mays Academy

Size

IDEA Mays Academy is the 39th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 663 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 421 students, so IDEA Mays Academy is larger 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 grade 3 with 119 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 94, against an average of 111 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (119 against 94). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 78.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 11.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA 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

IDEA Mays Academy has 33.13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 663 students would have about 44.8 teachers, so IDEA Mays Academy has 11.7 fewer.

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 Meadow Village Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Northside ISD. There are 50 elementary schools within 5 miles and 169 within 10 miles.

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