Great Hearts Northern Oaks

Size

Great Hearts Northern Oaks is the largest of Great Hearts Texas' 9 schools; its 1,430 students are 11.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 8 miles away with a median enrollment of 881; Great Hearts Northern Oaks is larger 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 grade 7 with 135 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 60, against an average of 110 per grade. This year grade 12 has 53% fewer students than kindergarten (60 against 127). 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: 48.1% here and 35% across Great Hearts Texas. Hispanic students are next, at 40.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

15.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 27.5% across Great Hearts Texas 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

With 74.43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,430 students, Great Hearts Northern Oaks has 19.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 1,430 students would have about 130 teachers, so Great Hearts Northern Oaks has 55.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

Location

Great Hearts Northern Oaks is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other school is Great Hearts Online - TX, 4.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 5 other schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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