Southwest Public Schools Visual & Perf Arts Academy

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Southwest Public Schools, Southwest Public Schools Visual & Perf Arts Academy is the smallest, with 26.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 559 students, so Southwest Public Schools Visual & Perf Arts Academy is close to their typical size.

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 126 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 50, against an average of 70 per grade. This year grade 5 has 11% more students than kindergarten (62 against 56). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 126 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 92.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Southwest Public Schools (89.7%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.5% of students qualify 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

Southwest Public Schools Visual & Perf Arts Academy has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 81.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 487 students would have about 32.9 teachers, so Southwest Public Schools Visual & Perf Arts Academy has 26.9 fewer.

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

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 elementary school is Smith Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 46 elementary schools within 5 miles and 201 within 10 miles.

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