Ruby Young Talented and Gifted Academy

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Desoto ISD, Ruby Young Talented and Gifted Academy is the smallest, with 4.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 435; Ruby Young Talented and Gifted 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 grade 6 with 43 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 15, against an average of 29 per grade. This year grade 8 has 26% more students than kindergarten (34 against 27). 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

The largest group is Black students: 73.4% here and 70.2% across Desoto ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 21.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

58.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.6% across Desoto 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 13.22 full-time-equivalent teachers for 263 students, Ruby Young Talented and Gifted Academy has 19.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 263 students would have about 17.8 teachers, so Ruby Young Talented and Gifted Academy has 4.6 fewer.

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

Location

Ruby Young Talented and Gifted Academy is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Golden Rule Desoto, 1.4 miles away in Golden Rule Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 102 other elementary schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

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