Dallas County Juvenile Justice

Size

Of the 3 high schools in Academy for Academic Excellence, Dallas County Juvenile Justice is the largest, with 49.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 510 students, so Dallas County Juvenile Justice 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 9 with 64 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 1, against an average of 20 per grade. This year grade 12 has 50% fewer students than grade 6 (1 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

Black students are the largest group, at 50.4% of enrollment, a lower share than across Academy for Academic Excellence (55.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 42.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Academy for Academic Excellence 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

Dallas County Juvenile Justice has 27.58 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 139 students would have about 9.9 teachers, so Dallas County Juvenile Justice has 17.7 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Pass Learning Center, 0.2 miles away in Garland ISD. There are 22 high schools within 5 miles and 65 within 10 miles.

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