Founders Classical Academy- Carrollton

Size

Of the 16 schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, Founders Classical Academy- Carrollton is the 8th largest, with 3.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest schools are a median 6 miles away and have a median of 462 students, so Founders Classical Academy- Carrollton is larger than most of them.

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 5 with 67 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 8, against an average of 41 per grade. This year grade 12 has 86% fewer students than kindergarten (8 against 57). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 34 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 36.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas College Preparatory Academies (31.4%). White students are next, at 25.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.3% of students qualify 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

Founders Classical Academy- Carrollton has 48.36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 579 students would have about 52.6 teachers, so Founders Classical Academy- Carrollton has 4.2 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other school is Huie Special Educ Center, 1.7 miles away in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. There are 3 schools within 5 miles and 7 within 10 miles.

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