Heritage Academy

Size

Of the 3 middle schools in Heritage Academy, Heritage Academy is the 2nd largest, with 5.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 437 students, so Heritage 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. 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 19 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 14, against an average of 17 per grade. This year grade 8 has 26% fewer students than grade 7 (14 against 19). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 36.4% of enrollment, a lower share than across Heritage Academy (83.4%). Black students are next, at 27.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.6% across Heritage Academy and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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

Heritage Academy has 3.98 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 33 students would have about 2.3 teachers, so Heritage Academy has 1.7 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. Heritage Academy of San Antonio (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 13 middle schools within 5 miles and 37 within 10 miles.

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