Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy

Size

Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy is the largest of Desoto ISD's 6 elementary schools; its 536 students are 9.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 436; Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy is close to their typical size.

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 4 with 72 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 40, against an average of 60 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 58 in kindergarten and 57 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 84% here and 70.2% across Desoto ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 12.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.6% across Desoto ISD 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 28.49 full-time-equivalent teachers for 536 students, Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy has 18.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 536 students would have about 36.2 teachers, so Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy has 7.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet 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 Life School Lancaster, 0.7 miles away in Life School. Within 10 miles there are 72 other elementary schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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