The Lawson Academy

Size

The Lawson Academy is the only school in The Lawson Academy, so its 235 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 320 students, so The Lawson Academy is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools. 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 112 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 9, against an average of 47 per grade. This year grade 8 has 244% more students than kindergarten (31 against 9). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 112 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 71.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas public schools (12.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 23%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 12.16 full-time-equivalent teachers for 235 students, The Lawson Academy has 19.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 235 students would have about 15.9 teachers, so The Lawson Academy has 3.7 fewer.

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

Location

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 Lockhart Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 67 elementary schools within 5 miles and 211 within 10 miles.

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