STEAM at the Fine Arts Academy

Size

STEAM at the Fine Arts Academy is the 3rd largest of Edgewood ISD's 6 high schools; its 240 students are 3.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 484 students, so STEAM at the Fine Arts Academy is smaller than most of them.

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 10 with 68 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 44, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 12 has 32% fewer students than grade 9 (44 against 65). 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 97.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Edgewood ISD (96.4%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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

STEAM at the Fine Arts Academy has 21.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 240 students would have about 17.1 teachers, so STEAM at the Fine Arts Academy has 4.8 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. Alternative Center (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 29 high schools within 5 miles and 81 within 10 miles.

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