Step Charter Elementary School

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Step Charter School, Step Charter Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 42.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 582 students, so Step Charter Elementary 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 7 with 38 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 20, against an average of 33 per grade. This year grade 8 has 39% fewer students than kindergarten (20 against 33). 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 51.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Step Charter School (64.4%). Asian students are next, at 22.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.3% across Step Charter School 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

Step Charter Elementary School has 19.38 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 293 students would have about 19.8 teachers, so Step Charter Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 Smith Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Alief ISD. There are 62 elementary schools within 5 miles and 173 within 10 miles.

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