Richard Milburn Alternative H S (Killeen)

Size

Richard Milburn Alternative H S (Killeen) is the 7th largest of Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen)'s 9 high schools; its 136 students are 8.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,361; Richard Milburn Alternative H S (Killeen) 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 10 with 54 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 22, against an average of 34 per grade. This year grade 12 has 42% fewer students than grade 9 (22 against 38). 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 Black students: 44.1% here and 15.2% across Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen). Hispanic students are next, at 33.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 66.7% across Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen) and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 6.43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 136 students, Richard Milburn Alternative H S (Killeen) has 21.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 136 students would have about 9.7 teachers, so Richard Milburn Alternative H S (Killeen) has 3.3 fewer.

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

Location

Richard Milburn Alternative H S (Killeen) is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Killeen High School, 1.8 miles away in Killeen ISD. Within 10 miles there are 9 other high schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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