Texans Can Academy - Houston Hobby

Size

Texans Can Academy - Houston Hobby is the 4th largest of Texans Can Academies' 12 high schools; its 322 students are 9.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 611 students, so Texans Can Academy - Houston Hobby 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 107 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 47, against an average of 81 per grade. This year grade 12 has 56% fewer students than grade 9 (47 against 107). 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 56.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across Texans Can Academies (64.8%). Black students are next, at 41.6%.

98.1% 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 - Houston Hobby has 14.21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 22.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 322 students would have about 23 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Houston Hobby has 8.8 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 YES Prep - Hobby, 0.1 miles away in YES Prep Public Schools Inc. There are 17 high schools within 5 miles and 54 within 10 miles.

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