Step Charter II

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Step Charter School, Step Charter II is the largest, with 46.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 538; Step Charter II 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 2 with 41 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 28, against an average of 36 per grade. This year grade 8 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (28 against 36). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 81.8% here and 64.4% across Step Charter School. Black students are next, at 16%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88% of its students are eligible 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

With 20.18 full-time-equivalent teachers for 324 students, Step Charter II has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 324 students would have about 21.9 teachers, so Step Charter II has 1.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Step Charter II is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Southwest Public Schools Int'l Leadership Academy (in Southwest Public Schools) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 190 other elementary schools, 73 of them within 5 miles.

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