SMITH STEM ACADEMY

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in VICTORIA, Texas, SMITH STEM ACADEMY teaches 447 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by VICTORIA ISD.

VICTORIA ISD comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 12,919 students; SMITH STEM ACADEMY is among them.

On the student-mix side, SMITH STEM ACADEMY lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 16% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Victoria County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SMITH STEM ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.1%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Victoria County put the typical household earns roughly $70,896 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Victoria County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), SMITH STEM ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

STEM MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SMITH STEM ACADEMY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

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