St Mary's Academy Charter School

Size

St Mary's Academy Charter School is the only school in St Mary's Academy Charter School, so its 282 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 13.2 miles away and have a median of 362 students, so St Mary's Academy Charter School 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 grade 4 with 50 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 25, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 6 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (25 against 31). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 85.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (53.5%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

St Mary's Academy Charter School has 17.13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 282 students would have about 19.1 teachers, so St Mary's Academy Charter School has 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

NCES classifies its location as town, remote, which means it is in a town more than 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is R a Hall Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in Beeville ISD. There are 3 elementary schools within 5 miles and 3 within 10 miles.

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