Fred W Edwards Academy Aec

Size

Fred W Edwards Academy Aec is the smallest of Temple ISD's 2 high schools; its 77 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 6.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 524; Fred W Edwards Academy Aec 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 45 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 8, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 12 has 350% more students than grade 9 (45 against 10). 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: 51.9% here and 48.9% across Temple ISD. Black students are next, at 20.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.4% across Temple 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 6.8 full-time-equivalent teachers for 77 students, Fred W Edwards Academy Aec has 11.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 77 students would have about 5.5 teachers, so Fred W Edwards Academy Aec has 1.3 more.

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

Location

Fred W Edwards Academy Aec is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Temple High School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 8 other high schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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