Ryss STEM Academy at First Friends Pasadena

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success, Ryss STEM Academy at First Friends Pasadena is the 3rd largest, with 7.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 569; Ryss STEM Academy at First Friends Pasadena is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 104 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 8, against an average of 29 per grade. This year grade 5 has 31% fewer students than kindergarten (11 against 16). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 104 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91.8% here and 97.7% across Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 95.7% across Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success 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 10.43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 147 students, Ryss STEM Academy at First Friends Pasadena has 14.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 147 students would have about 9.9 teachers, so Ryss STEM Academy at First Friends Pasadena 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

Ryss STEM Academy at First Friends Pasadena is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Young Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Pasadena ISD. Within 10 miles there are 144 other elementary schools, 50 of them within 5 miles.

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