Bell County Inspire Academy

Size

Of the 5 high schools in Inspire Academies, Bell County Inspire Academy is the 2nd largest, with 5.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,896; Bell County Inspire 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. As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 10 with 20 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 2, against an average of 9 per grade. This year grade 11 has 450% more students than grade 7 (11 against 2). 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 Black students: 52.3% here and 10.4% across Inspire Academies. Hispanic students are next, at 34.1%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.5% across Inspire Academies and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 2.89 full-time-equivalent teachers for 44 students, Bell County Inspire Academy has 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 44 students would have about 3.1 teachers, so Bell County Inspire Academy has about as many as that.

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

Location

Bell County Inspire Academy is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Killeen High School, 1.3 miles away in Killeen ISD. Within 10 miles there are 9 other high schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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