Young Men's Leadership Academy

Size

Young Men's Leadership Academy is the 14th largest of San Antonio ISD's 19 high schools; its 242 students are 0.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 223 students, so Young Men's Leadership Academy is close to their typical size.

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 grade 8 with 54 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 22, against an average of 35 per grade. This year grade 12 has 39% fewer students than grade 6 (22 against 36). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 74% of enrollment, a lower share than across San Antonio ISD (89.8%). Black students are next, at 18.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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

Young Men's Leadership Academy has 19.56 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 242 students would have about 17.3 teachers, so Young Men's Leadership Academy has 2.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

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 high school is Jja, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 31 high schools within 5 miles and 79 within 10 miles.

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