Evolution Academy Charter School

Size

Evolution Academy Charter School is the largest of Evolution Academy Charter School's 3 high schools; its 233 students are 37% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 1,819 students, so Evolution Academy Charter School 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 11 with 84 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 39, against an average of 58 per grade. This year grade 12 has 31% more students than grade 9 (51 against 39). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 59.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Evolution Academy Charter School (45.6%). Black students are next, at 30%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

50.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across Evolution Academy Charter School 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

Evolution Academy Charter School has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 25.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 233 students would have about 16.6 teachers, so Evolution Academy Charter School has 7.6 fewer.

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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other high school is Richland Collegiate H S of Math Science Engineerin, 1.1 miles away in Richland Collegiate High School. There are 12 high schools within 5 miles and 45 within 10 miles.

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