Texasworks - Austin-Wells Branch

Size

Texasworks - Austin-Wells Branch is the 7th largest of Texas Works' 17 high schools; its 24 students are 5.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 802 students, so Texasworks - Austin-Wells Branch 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 12 with 12 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 2, against an average of 6 per grade. This year grade 12 has 300% more students than grade 9 (12 against 3). 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 75% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas Works (71.3%). Black students are next, at 12.5%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

It does not take part in the National School Lunch Program.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Texasworks - Austin-Wells Branch has 1.68 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 24 students would have about 1.7 teachers, so Texasworks - Austin-Wells Branch has about as many as that.

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. Premier High School-Austin Wells Branch (in Premier High Schools) is listed at the same location. There are 11 high schools within 5 miles and 39 within 10 miles.

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