Cornerstone Academy

Size

Cornerstone Academy is the smallest of Spring Branch ISD's 8 middle schools; its 423 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.7 miles away and have a median of 632 students, so Cornerstone Academy is smaller than most of them.

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 6 with 149 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 125, against an average of 141 per grade. This year grade 8 has 16% fewer students than grade 6 (125 against 149). 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

White students are the largest group, at 45.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Spring Branch ISD (28.5%). Hispanic students are next, at 31.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

15.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.6% across Spring Branch 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

Cornerstone Academy has 28.17 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 423 students would have about 29.4 teachers, so Cornerstone Academy has 1.2 fewer.

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 Spring Branch Middle School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 13 middle schools within 5 miles and 57 within 10 miles.

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