Texans Can Academy - Carrollton-Farmers Branch

Size

Texans Can Academy - Carrollton-Farmers Branch is the 9th largest of Texans Can Academies' 12 high schools; its 214 students are 6.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 711; Texans Can Academy - Carrollton-Farmers Branch 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 66 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 37, against an average of 54 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% fewer students than grade 9 (37 against 46). 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: 87.9% here and 64.8% across Texans Can Academies. Black students are next, at 10.3%.

72.4% 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 6.91 full-time-equivalent teachers for 214 students, Texans Can Academy - Carrollton-Farmers Branch has 31 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 214 students would have about 15.3 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Carrollton-Farmers Branch has 8.4 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 - Carrollton-Farmers Branch is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Turner High School, 0.4 miles away in Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. Within 10 miles there are 43 other high schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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