Faith Family Master Academy

Size

Faith Family Master Academy is the only elementary school in Faith Family Academy. Its 366 students are 12.1% of the district's 3,036. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 503; Faith Family Master Academy 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 pre-K with 126 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 18, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 8 has 46% fewer students than kindergarten (19 against 35). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 126 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 39.9% here and 22.9% across Faith Family Academy. Hispanic students are next, at 38.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

99.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.4% across Faith Family Academy and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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 20.19 full-time-equivalent teachers for 366 students, Faith Family Master Academy has 18.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 366 students would have about 24.7 teachers, so Faith Family Master Academy has 4.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Faith Family Master Academy is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Wilemon STEAM Academy, 1.4 miles away in Waxahachie ISD. Within 10 miles there are 26 other elementary schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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