Southwest Public Schools Lead &global Studies Academy

Size

Southwest Public Schools Lead &global Studies Academy is the only middle school in Southwest Public Schools. Its 284 students are 15.2% of the district's 1,866. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 425 students, so Southwest Public Schools Lead &global Studies Academy is smaller than most of them.

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 grade 6 with 104 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 90, against an average of 95 per grade. This year grade 8 has 13% fewer students than grade 6 (90 against 104). 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 88.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Southwest Public Schools (89.7%).

91.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94.1% across Southwest Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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

Southwest Public Schools Lead &global Studies Academy has 3.67 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 77.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 284 students would have about 19.7 teachers, so Southwest Public Schools Lead &global Studies Academy has 16 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Friends for Life Middle School, 1.3 miles away in Amigos Por Vida-Friends for Life Pub Chtr School. There are 17 middle schools within 5 miles and 64 within 10 miles.

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