Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest

Size

Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest is the 3rd largest of Texans Can Academies' 12 high schools; its 410 students are 11.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 901; Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest 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 132 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 51, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 12 has 61% fewer students than grade 9 (51 against 132). 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: 71% here and 64.8% across Texans Can Academies. Black students are next, at 25.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.5% 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 14.47 full-time-equivalent teachers for 410 students, Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest has 28.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 410 students would have about 29.3 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest has 14.8 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 - Houston Southwest is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is YES Prep - Brays Oaks, 0.3 miles away in YES Prep Public Schools Inc. Within 10 miles there are 57 other high schools, 21 of them within 5 miles.

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