Risd Academy

Size

Of the 36 elementary schools in Richardson ISD, Risd Academy is the 4th largest, with 2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 589; Risd 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 6 with 117 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 28, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 6 has 21% more students than kindergarten (117 against 97). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 28 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 90.2% here and 38.4% across Richardson ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 52.6% across Richardson 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

With 45.43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 731 students, Risd Academy has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 731 students would have about 49.4 teachers, so Risd Academy has 4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Risd Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Carolyn G Bukhair Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 194 other elementary schools, 49 of them within 5 miles.

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