Prelude Preparatory Charter School

Size

Prelude Preparatory Charter School is the only school in Prelude Preparatory Charter School, so its 162 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 491 students, so Prelude Preparatory Charter 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 1 with 40 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 11, against an average of 23 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% fewer students than kindergarten (20 against 26). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 23 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 92% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (53.5%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Prelude Preparatory Charter School has 11.68 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 162 students would have about 10.9 teachers, so Prelude Preparatory Charter 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Charles Graebner Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in San Antonio ISD. There are 59 elementary schools within 5 miles and 155 within 10 miles.

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