ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in BEEVILLE, Texas, part of ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 282 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL sits 46% below that benchmark.

ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Other groups include 10% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Bee County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 84% of students at ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.3%.

In the area at large, Bee County reports that median household earnings sit near $57,673, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 12 public schools in Bee County (combined enrollment of about 5,097 students).

A C JONES H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a town-center location. ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 38% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 282). The White share of enrollment fell from 15% to 10% over that span.

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