Mark Twain Dual Language Academy

Size

Of the 48 elementary schools in San Antonio ISD, Mark Twain Dual Language Academy is the 7th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 414; Mark Twain Dual Language 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 pre-K with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 43, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 8 has 43% fewer students than kindergarten (43 against 75). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 116 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91.6% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.3% of its students are eligible 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

With 46.11 full-time-equivalent teachers for 694 students, Mark Twain Dual Language Academy has 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 694 students would have about 46.9 teachers, so Mark Twain Dual Language Academy 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

Mark Twain Dual Language Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Great Hearts Monte Vista, 0.6 miles away in Great Hearts Texas. Within 10 miles there are 190 other elementary schools, 69 of them within 5 miles.

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