Founders Classical Academy - Fort Worth

Size

Founders Classical Academy - Fort Worth is the smallest of Texas College Preparatory Academies' 17 elementary schools; its 38 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 652 students, so Founders Classical Academy - Fort Worth is smaller 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 kindergarten with 15 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 4, against an average of 10 per grade. This year grade 3 has 73% fewer students than kindergarten (4 against 15). 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

White students are the largest group, at 55.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas College Preparatory Academies (36.9%). Hispanic students are next, at 23.7%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.1% of students qualify 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

Founders Classical Academy - Fort Worth has 4.25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 38 students would have about 2.6 teachers, so Founders Classical Academy - Fort Worth has 1.7 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Blue Haze Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in White Settlement ISD. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 77 within 10 miles.

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