Manara Academy

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Manara Academy, Manara Academy is the largest, with 41% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.7 miles away and have a median of 541 students, so Manara 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 88 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 20, against an average of 34 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 24 in kindergarten and 26 in grade 6. It also enrolls 88 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Asian students are the largest group, at 56.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Manara Academy (35.3%). White students are next, at 16%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.6% across Manara Academy 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

Manara Academy has 13.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 275 students would have about 18.6 teachers, so Manara Academy has 5 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 Las Colinas Elementary School, 1.6 miles away in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 127 within 10 miles.

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