Kelly Academy at Lowell

Size

Of the 48 elementary schools in San Antonio ISD, Kelly Academy at Lowell is the 24th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 393 students, so Kelly Academy at Lowell is larger than most of them.

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 6 with 78 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 29, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 8 has 111% more students than kindergarten (78 against 37). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 39 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 95.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across San Antonio ISD (89.8%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio 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

Kelly Academy at Lowell has 33.31 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 497 students would have about 33.6 teachers, so Kelly Academy at Lowell 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Sarah S King Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 61 elementary schools within 5 miles and 171 within 10 miles.

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