📍 405 W 22nd St, Austin, Travis County, 78705
Helping Hand is an Alternative/PRU serving elementary age pupils, located in Austin, Travis County. The school has 22 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Holly Engleman. It is part of the University Of Texas University Charter School school district. It serves grades K–7 in an urban setting. The school employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 7.3:1. It operates as a public charter school. 10% of students are proficient in reading. 10% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi.
Helping Hand enrolls 22 students across grades K–7. The student body is 55% male and 45% female. A teaching staff of 3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 7.3:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 50% White, 27% Black or African American and 23% Hispanic or Latino.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White | 11 | 50% |
| Black or African American | 6 | 27% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 5 | 23% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
Helping Hand is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Large). It operates as a public charter school. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district TX At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 14, state house district 49.
Helping Hand is one of 22 schools in UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL, based in AUSTIN, Texas. The district serves 587 students district-wide and employs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 22 students, Helping Hand is smaller than the district average of about 27 students per school.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Large