Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite Elementary School

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy, Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite Elementary School is the largest, with 9.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 517 students, so Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite Elementary School 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 grade 3 with 53 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 36, against an average of 42 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 44 in kindergarten and 42 in grade 4.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 40.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy (16.3%). Hispanic students are next, at 32.5%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

46.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.9% across Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under Provision 2 or 3 of the National School Lunch Program, every student eats at no charge; meal applications are only collected in a base year.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite Elementary School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 212 students would have about 14.3 teachers, so Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite Elementary School 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Black Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Mesquite ISD. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 124 within 10 miles.

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