Texans Can Academy - San Antonio

Size

Of the 12 high schools in Texans Can Academies, Texans Can Academy - San Antonio is the smallest, with 2.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 805 students, so Texans Can Academy - San Antonio 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 10 with 30 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 2, against an average of 18 per grade. This year grade 12 has 93% fewer students than grade 9 (2 against 27). 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 95.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texans Can Academies (64.8%).

87.5% 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 - San Antonio has 3.96 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 72 students would have about 5.1 teachers, so Texans Can Academy - San Antonio has 1.1 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 John F Kennedy High School, 1.7 miles away in Edgewood ISD. There are 35 high schools within 5 miles and 77 within 10 miles.

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