Sst Advancement

Size

Sst Advancement is the 4th largest of School of Science and Technology Discovery's 5 elementary schools; its 646 students are 10.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 508; Sst Advancement is larger 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 grade 3 with 79 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 32, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 8 has 56% fewer students than kindergarten (32 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 72 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 55.9% here and 16.8% across School of Science and Technology Discovery. Hispanic students are next, at 31.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.4% across School of Science and Technology Discovery and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 36.37 full-time-equivalent teachers for 646 students, Sst Advancement has 17.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 646 students would have about 43.6 teachers, so Sst Advancement has 7.2 fewer.

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

Location

Sst Advancement is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Mahanay Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Alief ISD. Within 10 miles there are 179 other elementary schools, 59 of them within 5 miles.

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