The Learning Center

Size

The Learning Center is the only school in New Caney ISD. Its 102 students are 0.5% of the district's 19,420. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 18.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 167; The Learning Center 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 10 with 22 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 1, against an average of 11 per grade. This year grade 12 has 800% more students than grade 1 (9 against 1). 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: 60.8% here and 63.1% across New Caney ISD. White students are next, at 20.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.5% across New Caney ISD and a median of 61.6% for Texas schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 15.31 full-time-equivalent teachers for 102 students, The Learning Center has 6.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 102 students would have about 9.3 teachers, so The Learning Center has 6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

Location

The Learning Center is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other school is Ki Charter - Kingwood, 7.7 miles away in Ki Charter. Within 10 miles there is 1 other school, 0 of them within 5 miles.

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