Sst the Woodlands

Size

Sst the Woodlands is the 4th largest of School of Science and Technology's 5 elementary schools; its 559 students are 10% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 819 students, so Sst the Woodlands is smaller 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 kindergarten with 76 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 11, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 8 has 86% fewer students than kindergarten (11 against 76). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 63.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across School of Science and Technology (62%). Black students are next, at 16.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

43.8% 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 the Woodlands has 35.07 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 559 students would have about 37.8 teachers, so Sst the Woodlands has 2.7 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Creekview Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Tomball ISD. There are 20 elementary schools within 5 miles and 56 within 10 miles.

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