Keys Academy

Size

Keys Academy is the smallest of Socorro ISD's 9 high schools; its 56 students are 0.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,416; Keys 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 9 with 20 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 1, against an average of 8 per grade. This year grade 12 has 100% more students than grade 6 (2 against 1). 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: 89.3% here and 91% across Socorro ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro 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 16.04 full-time-equivalent teachers for 56 students, Keys Academy has 3.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 56 students would have about 4 teachers, so Keys Academy has 12 more.

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

Location

Keys Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Options High School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 32 other high schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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