Wayside Eden Park Academy

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Wayside Schools, Wayside Eden Park Academy is the smallest, with 13.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 362; Wayside Eden Park Academy 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 57 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 22, against an average of 34 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% more students than kindergarten (38 against 33). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 57 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 62.1% here and 85.3% across Wayside Schools. White students are next, at 23%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.6% across Wayside Schools 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 11 full-time-equivalent teachers for 235 students, Wayside Eden Park Academy has 21.4 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 Wayside Eden Park Academy has 4.9 fewer.

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

Location

Wayside Eden Park Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Cunningham Elementary School, 0.2 miles away in Austin ISD. Within 10 miles there are 85 other elementary schools, 36 of them within 5 miles.

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