Sst Alamo

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in School of Science and Technology, Sst Alamo is the 2nd largest, with 15.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 457 students, so Sst Alamo 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 6 with 134 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 45, against an average of 106 per grade. This year grade 6 has 30% more students than kindergarten (134 against 103). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 65% of enrollment, about the same share as across School of Science and Technology (62%). White students are next, at 19.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 56.7% across School of Science and Technology 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

Sst Alamo has 49.77 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 848 students would have about 57.3 teachers, so Sst Alamo has 7.5 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 Basis San Antonio Primary - Northeast Campus, 0.6 miles away in Basis Texas. There are 40 elementary schools within 5 miles and 111 within 10 miles.

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