Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Premier High Schools, Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano is the smallest, with 0.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 533 students, so Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as a special education school, one that focuses mainly on students with disabilities. 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 kindergarten with 4 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 3, against an average of 3 per grade. This year grade 1 has 25% fewer students than kindergarten (3 against 4). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 3 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 40% of enrollment, a higher share than across Premier High Schools (11.6%). Asian students are next, at 20%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

60% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 76.8% across Premier High Schools and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano has 0.71 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 10 students would have about 0.7 teachers, so Premier H S-Foundation School of Autism-Plano 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 Barksdale Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Plano ISD. There are 41 elementary schools within 5 miles and 157 within 10 miles.

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