Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy

Size

Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy is the largest of Southwest Public Schools' 2 elementary schools; its 526 students are 28.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 528; Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy is close to their typical size.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools. 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 kindergarten with 90 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 65, against an average of 75 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% fewer students than kindergarten (65 against 90). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 70 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 94.3% here and 89.7% across Southwest Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94.1% across Southwest Public Schools 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 6.83 full-time-equivalent teachers for 526 students, Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy has 77 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 526 students would have about 35.5 teachers, so Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy has 28.7 fewer.

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

Location

Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Step Charter II (in Step Charter School) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 186 other elementary schools, 73 of them within 5 miles.

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