Founders Classical Academy Corinth

Size

Of the 17 elementary schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, Founders Classical Academy Corinth is the 2nd largest, with 3.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 524; Founders Classical Academy Corinth 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 4 with 102 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 90, against an average of 96 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% more students than kindergarten (102 against 91). 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 White students: 49.7% here and 36.9% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. Hispanic students are next, at 20.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

18.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 37.6% across Texas College Preparatory Academies and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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 33.29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 578 students, Founders Classical Academy Corinth has 17.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 578 students would have about 39.1 teachers, so Founders Classical Academy Corinth has 5.8 fewer.

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

Location

Founders Classical Academy Corinth is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Corinth Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Lake Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 76 other elementary schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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