Richey Academy

Size

Of the 7 high schools in Spring ISD, Richey Academy is the smallest, with 0.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 1,328 students, so Richey 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 6 with 12 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 2, against an average of 8 per grade. This year grade 12 has 83% fewer students than grade 6 (2 against 12). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 50% of enrollment, a higher share than across Spring ISD (36.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 28.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.2% across Spring 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

Richey Academy has 6.74 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 56 students would have about 4 teachers, so Richey Academy has 2.7 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Richard Milburn Academy Houston (Suburban), 1 miles away in Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen). There are 11 high schools within 5 miles and 36 within 10 miles.

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