Mount Carmel Academy

Size

Of the 47 high schools in Houston ISD, Mount Carmel Academy is the 42nd largest, with 0.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 504; Mount Carmel Academy is smaller 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 12 with 62 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 30, against an average of 49 per grade. This year grade 12 has 107% more students than grade 9 (62 against 30). 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: 91.2% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 6.37 full-time-equivalent teachers for 194 students, Mount Carmel Academy has 30.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 194 students would have about 13.9 teachers, so Mount Carmel Academy has 7.5 fewer.

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

Location

Mount Carmel Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Sterling High School, 2.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 60 other high schools, 15 of them within 5 miles.

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