Stafford El Visual and Performing Arts

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Edgewood ISD, Stafford El Visual and Performing Arts is the 2nd largest, with 6.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 336 students, so Stafford El Visual and Performing Arts 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 kindergarten with 114 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 80, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 4 has 15% fewer students than kindergarten (97 against 114). 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 97.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Edgewood ISD (96.4%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood ISD 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Stafford El Visual and Performing Arts has 26.31 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 503 students would have about 34 teachers, so Stafford El Visual and Performing Arts has 7.7 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Monterrey Park Academy, 0.5 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 69 elementary schools within 5 miles and 191 within 10 miles.

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