Bright Academy

Size

Of the 43 elementary schools in Frisco ISD, Bright Academy is the 39th largest, with 0.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 637 students, so Bright Academy is smaller than most of them.

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 4 with 89 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 52, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (62 against 52). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 77 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 32.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Frisco ISD (12.7%). Black students are next, at 24.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

50.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 13.8% across Frisco ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Bright Academy has 41.55 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 485 students would have about 32.8 teachers, so Bright Academy has 8.8 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

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 elementary school is Spears Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 44 elementary schools within 5 miles and 140 within 10 miles.

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