Texans Can Academy - Grant East

Size

Texans Can Academy - Grant East is the 10th largest of Texans Can Academies' 12 high schools; its 205 students are 5.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 379 students, so Texans Can Academy - Grant East 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 89 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 23, against an average of 51 per grade. This year grade 12 has 74% fewer students than grade 9 (23 against 89). 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 66.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texans Can Academies (32%). Hispanic students are next, at 29.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.6% 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 - Grant East has 4.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 41.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 205 students would have about 14.6 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Grant East has 9.6 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 Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy, 1.3 miles away in Dallas ISD. There are 13 high schools within 5 miles and 50 within 10 miles.

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