Frank M Tejeda Academy

Size

Frank M Tejeda Academy is the 4th largest of Harlandale ISD's 5 high schools; its 144 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 502; Frank M Tejeda 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.

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 12 with 40 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 30, against an average of 36 per grade. This year grade 12 has 33% more students than grade 9 (40 against 30). 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 Hispanic students: 98.6% here and 97.4% across Harlandale ISD.

85.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.5% across Harlandale ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 17.17 full-time-equivalent teachers for 144 students, Frank M Tejeda Academy has 8.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 144 students would have about 10.3 teachers, so Frank M Tejeda Academy has 6.9 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Frank M Tejeda Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Hac DAEP High School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 55 other high schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

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