Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Edgewood ISD, Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls is the 5th largest, with 4.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 332; Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls is close to their typical size.

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 2 with 50 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 28, against an average of 39 per grade. This year grade 8 has 21% more students than kindergarten (34 against 28). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 97.5% here and 96.4% across Edgewood ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood 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 25.82 full-time-equivalent teachers for 354 students, Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls has 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 354 students would have about 23.9 teachers, so Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls has 1.9 more.

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

Location

Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Rodriguez Montessori Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 186 other elementary schools, 69 of them within 5 miles.

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