Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School, Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange is the smallest, with 20.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 8 miles away with a median enrollment of 706; Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange 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 pre-K with 20 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 3, against an average of 9 per grade. This year grade 8 has 57% fewer students than kindergarten (3 against 7). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 20 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 81.2% here and 89.3% across Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School. White students are next, at 14.1%.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.2% across Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM 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 7.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 85 students, Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange has 11.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 85 students would have about 5.7 teachers, so Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange has 1.7 more.

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

Location

Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies - Orange is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is West Orange-Stark Elementary School, 2.2 miles away in West Orange-Cove CISD. Within 10 miles there are 6 other elementary schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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