Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Lancaster Avenue

Size

Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Lancaster Avenue is the 5th largest of Texans Can Academies' 12 high schools; its 319 students are 9.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 437 students, so Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Lancaster Avenue 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 9 with 119 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 40, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 12 has 66% fewer students than grade 9 (40 against 119). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 60.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Texans Can Academies (64.8%). Black students are next, at 34.5%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.4% of students qualify 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

Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Lancaster Avenue has 11.35 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 28.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 319 students would have about 22.8 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Lancaster Avenue has 11.5 fewer.

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 Im Terrell Academy for STEM and Vpa, 0.2 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. There are 22 high schools within 5 miles and 57 within 10 miles.

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