Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Westcreek

Size

Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Westcreek is the 7th largest of Texans Can Academies' 12 high schools; its 240 students are 6.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,514; Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Westcreek 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 84 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 28, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 12 has 67% fewer students than grade 9 (28 against 84). 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: 52.5% here and 64.8% across Texans Can Academies. Black students are next, at 43.3%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.9% 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 4.94 full-time-equivalent teachers for 240 students, Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Westcreek has 48.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 240 students would have about 17.1 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Fort Worth Westcreek has 12.2 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 - Fort Worth Westcreek is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is South Hills High School, 0.7 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. Within 10 miles there are 45 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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