The Bridges Academy Alternative

Size

The Bridges Academy Alternative is the smallest of Grapevine-Colleyville ISD's 5 high schools; its 57 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.5 miles away and have a median of 1,523 students, so The Bridges Academy Alternative 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.

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 24 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 5, against an average of 14 per grade. This year grade 12 has 380% more students than grade 9 (24 against 5). 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 63.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (26.9%). White students are next, at 24.6%. 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

The Bridges Academy Alternative has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 57 students would have about 4.1 teachers, so The Bridges Academy Alternative has 5.9 more.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Grapevine High School, 2.2 miles away in the same district. There are 9 high schools within 5 miles and 31 within 10 miles.

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