Margie Chumbley Academy for Success

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Nacogdoches ISD, Margie Chumbley Academy for Success is the smallest, with 1.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 15.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 274; Margie Chumbley Academy for Success 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 25 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 9, against an average of 17 per grade. This year grade 12 has 178% more students than grade 9 (25 against 9). 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: 49.3% here and 48.3% across Nacogdoches ISD. Black students are next, at 32.8%.

76.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Nacogdoches 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 14.76 full-time-equivalent teachers for 67 students, Margie Chumbley Academy for Success has 4.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 67 students would have about 4.8 teachers, so Margie Chumbley Academy for Success has 10 more.

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

Location

Margie Chumbley Academy for Success is in a town more than 35 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, remote. The nearest other high school is Nacogdoches High School, 2.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 2 other high schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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