El Paso Classical Academy

Size

Of the 16 schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, El Paso Classical Academy is the 13th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 83 miles away with a median enrollment of 264; El Paso Classical Academy is close to their typical size.

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 35 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 7, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 12 has 114% more students than kindergarten (15 against 7). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 12 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 93% here and 31.4% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

76% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 37.6% across Texas College Preparatory Academies and a median of 61.6% for Texas 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 19.79 full-time-equivalent teachers for 271 students, El Paso Classical Academy has 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 271 students would have about 24.6 teachers, so El Paso Classical Academy has 4.8 fewer.

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

Location

El Paso Classical Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other school is Harmony School of Science - El Paso, 3.6 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - West Texas. Within 10 miles there is 1 other school, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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