Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy

Size

Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is the 39th largest of Houston ISD's 178 elementary schools; its 715 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 556; Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is larger than most of them.

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 1 with 92 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 38, against an average of 72 per grade. This year grade 8 has 52% fewer students than kindergarten (43 against 89). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 68 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 69.7% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. White students are next, at 16.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

39.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston ISD 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 40.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 715 students, Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy has 17.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 715 students would have about 48.3 teachers, so Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy has 7.4 fewer.

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

Location

Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, 0.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 223 other elementary schools, 52 of them within 5 miles.

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