Lead Academy High School

Size

Lead Academy High School is the smallest of Longview ISD's 2 high schools; its 201 students are 2.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 488; Lead Academy High School 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 11 with 66 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 40, against an average of 50 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 42 in grade 9 and 40 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 40.8% here and 34.4% across Longview ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 39.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.4% across Longview 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 13.57 full-time-equivalent teachers for 201 students, Lead Academy High School has 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 201 students would have about 14.4 teachers, so Lead Academy High School has about as many as that.

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

Location

Lead Academy High School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Pine Tree High School, 3.1 miles away in Pine Tree ISD. Within 10 miles there are 8 other high schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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