Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite

Size

Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite is the largest of Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy's 2 high schools; its 484 students are 20.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,999; Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite 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 7 with 91 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 41, against an average of 61 per grade. This year grade 12 has 29% more students than grade 5 (53 against 41). 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: 78.5% here and 41.7% across Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy. Black students are next, at 11.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

53.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.9% across Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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

With 34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 484 students, Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite has 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 484 students would have about 34.6 teachers, so Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Mesquite is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Premier H S Mesquite, 1.4 miles away in Premier High Schools. Within 10 miles there are 43 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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