Accelerated Center for Education (Ace)

Size

Of the 5 high schools in Galena Park ISD, Accelerated Center for Education (Ace) is the 4th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.5 miles away and have a median of 66 students, so Accelerated Center for Education (Ace) is larger 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 12 with 118 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 6, against an average of 58 per grade. This year grade 12 has 1,867% more students than grade 9 (118 against 6). 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 87% of enrollment, a higher share than across Galena Park ISD (82.1%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.8% across Galena Park 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

Accelerated Center for Education (Ace) has 22.29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 230 students would have about 16.4 teachers, so Accelerated Center for Education (Ace) has 5.9 more.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Galena Park ISD Career & Technical Echs, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 11 high schools within 5 miles and 38 within 10 miles.

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