Psja Early Start

Size

Psja Early Start is the only school in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. Its 527 students are 1.8% of the district's 29,613. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 24.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 185; Psja Early Start is larger than most of them.

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

Psja Early Start serves a single grade, pre-K, with 527 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 97.9% here and 98.8% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD.

95.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD and a median of 85.7% for Texas 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 26.83 full-time-equivalent teachers for 527 students, Psja Early Start has 19.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 527 students would have about 31 teachers, so Psja Early Start has 4.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (17).

Location

Psja Early Start is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other school is Early Childhood, 7.2 miles away in Edinburg CISD. Within 10 miles there are 2 other schools, 0 of them within 5 miles.

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