Alternative Learning Center

Size

Alternative Learning Center is the 16th largest of Austin ISD's 22 high schools; its 113 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 520; Alternative Learning Center 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 9 with 26 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 6, against an average of 16 per grade. This year grade 12 has 117% more students than grade 6 (13 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 67.3% here and 54.4% across Austin ISD. Black students are next, at 15.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin 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

With 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers for 113 students, Alternative Learning Center has 6.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 113 students would have about 8.1 teachers, so Alternative Learning Center has 10 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Alternative Learning Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Lasa High School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 44 other high schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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