Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City Elementary School

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy, Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City Elementary School is the smallest, with 8.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 689 students, so Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City 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 4 with 49 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 33, against an average of 39 per grade. This year grade 4 has 48% more students than kindergarten (49 against 33). 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

White students are the largest group, at 37.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Pioneer Technology & Arts Academy (33.5%). Black students are next, at 27.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

24.7% 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) Royse City Elementary School has 11.75 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 194 students would have about 13.1 teachers, so Pioneer Technology (Ptaa) Royse City Elementary School has 1.3 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 town, fringe, which means it is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is Anita Scott Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Royse City ISD. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

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