Disciplinary Alternative Placement Center

Size

Disciplinary Alternative Placement Center is the only school in Richardson ISD. Its 124 students are 0.3% of the district's 36,971. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 8.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 224; Disciplinary Alternative Placement 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 35 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 2, against an average of 12 per grade. This year grade 12 has 200% more students than grade 3 (6 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 Hispanic students: 53.2% here and 38.4% across Richardson ISD. Black students are next, at 33.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 52.6% across Richardson ISD and a median of 61.6% for Texas 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 25.38 full-time-equivalent teachers for 124 students, Disciplinary Alternative Placement Center has 4.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 124 students would have about 11.3 teachers, so Disciplinary Alternative Placement Center has 14.1 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

Location

Disciplinary Alternative Placement Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other school is Harmony Science Academy - Dallas, 1.3 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. Within 10 miles there are 6 other schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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