Sst Northwest

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in School of Science and Technology Discovery, Sst Northwest is the 3rd largest, with 10.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 771; Sst Northwest 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 4 with 96 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 56, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 7 has 21% fewer students than kindergarten (58 against 73). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 58 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 60.5% here and 64.5% across School of Science and Technology Discovery. Black students are next, at 13.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

36.6% 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 45.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 661 students, Sst Northwest has 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 661 students would have about 44.7 teachers, so Sst Northwest has 1.2 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 Northwest 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 Mireles Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Northside ISD. Within 10 miles there are 98 other elementary schools, 33 of them within 5 miles.

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