Reed Academy

Size

Of the 47 elementary schools in Aldine ISD, Reed Academy is the 15th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 546 students, so Reed Academy is close to their typical size.

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 166 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 99, against an average of 127 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than grade 1 (118 against 99). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 82.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Aldine ISD (75.2%). Black students are next, at 13.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Aldine 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

Reed Academy has 40.14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 637 students would have about 43 teachers, so Reed Academy has 2.9 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Hinojosa EC/PK/K, 0.1 miles away in the same district. There are 47 elementary schools within 5 miles and 162 within 10 miles.

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