Founders Classical Academy-Tyler

Size

Founders Classical Academy-Tyler is the 9th largest of Texas College Preparatory Academies' 16 schools; its 480 students are 2.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest schools are a median 33.4 miles away and have a median of 456 students, so Founders Classical Academy-Tyler 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 2 with 49 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 18, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 12 has 51% fewer students than kindergarten (18 against 37). 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 51.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas College Preparatory Academies (36.9%). Hispanic students are next, at 26.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

39.2% 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-Tyler has 35.31 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 480 students would have about 43.6 teachers, so Founders Classical Academy-Tyler has 8.3 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other school is UT Tyler University Academy at Tyler, 2.5 miles away in UT Tyler University Academy. There is 1 school within 5 miles and 1 within 10 miles.

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