Academic Counseling and Transition Academy

Size

Of the 3 middle schools in Channelview ISD, Academic Counseling and Transition Academy is the smallest, with 0.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4.2 miles away and have a median of 909 students, so Academic Counseling and Transition Academy is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 18 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 1, against an average of 8 per grade. This year grade 8 has 1,700% more students than grade 6 (18 against 1). 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 68% of enrollment, a lower share than across Channelview ISD (83.6%). Black students are next, at 24%.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.7% across Channelview ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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

Academic Counseling and Transition Academy has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 25 students would have about 1.7 teachers, so Academic Counseling and Transition Academy has 3.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Alice Johnson Junior High School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 6 middle schools within 5 miles and 32 within 10 miles.

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