Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy

Size

Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy is the 26th largest of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD's 27 elementary schools; its 167 students are 0.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 570 students, so Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy is smaller 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

Its largest grade is pre-K with 136 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 8, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 1 has 65% fewer students than kindergarten (8 against 23). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 136 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 99.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (98.8%).

84.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy has 10.64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 167 students would have about 11.3 teachers, so Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy 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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Henry Ford Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. There are 36 elementary schools within 5 miles and 113 within 10 miles.

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