Young Women's Leadership Academy

Size

Of the 19 high schools in San Antonio ISD, Young Women's Leadership Academy is the 8th largest, with 1.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 134 students, so Young Women's Leadership Academy is larger 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 grade 6 with 105 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 59, against an average of 76 per grade. This year grade 12 has 44% fewer students than grade 6 (59 against 105). 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 86.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across San Antonio ISD (89.8%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

44.4% 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 Women's Leadership Academy has 34.93 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 534 students would have about 38.1 teachers, so Young Women's Leadership Academy has 3.2 fewer.

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 Jefferson High School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 38 high schools within 5 miles and 86 within 10 miles.

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