Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School, Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies is the largest, with 56.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 576; Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies 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 98 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 15, against an average of 34 per grade. This year grade 5 has 53% fewer students than kindergarten (18 against 38). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 98 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 91.5% here and 89.3% across Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School.

94.9% 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 15.02 full-time-equivalent teachers for 236 students, Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies has 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 236 students would have about 15.9 teachers, so Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies 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

Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Lakeview Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Port Arthur ISD. Within 10 miles there are 19 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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