Sst Discovery

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in School of Science and Technology Discovery, Sst Discovery is the smallest, with 8.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 458; Sst Discovery 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 grade 1 with 75 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 40, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 7 has 34% fewer students than kindergarten (44 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 62 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 76.6% here and 64.5% across School of Science and Technology Discovery. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

69.7% 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 38.46 full-time-equivalent teachers for 508 students, Sst Discovery has 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 508 students would have about 34.3 teachers, so Sst Discovery has 4.2 more.

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

Location

Sst Discovery is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is The Gathering Place, 0.5 miles away in The Gathering Place. Within 10 miles there are 183 other elementary schools, 59 of them within 5 miles.

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