Texans Can Academy - Austin

Size

Of the 12 high schools in Texans Can Academies, Texans Can Academy - Austin is the 11th largest, with 4.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 520; Texans Can Academy - Austin 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 63 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 20, against an average of 42 per grade. This year grade 12 has 80% more students than grade 9 (36 against 20). 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: 81.5% here and 64.8% across Texans Can Academies. Black students are next, at 13.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

69.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 83.8% across Texans Can Academies 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 7.92 full-time-equivalent teachers for 168 students, Texans Can Academy - Austin has 21.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 168 students would have about 12 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Austin has 4.1 fewer.

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

Location

Texans Can Academy - Austin is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Eastside Early College High School, 0.2 miles away in Austin ISD. Within 10 miles there are 44 other high schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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