Thrive Academy

Size

Thrive Academy is the 10th largest of Ysleta ISD's 11 high schools; its 113 students are 0.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 297; Thrive Academy 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 11 with 41 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 13, against an average of 28 per grade. This year grade 12 has 169% more students than grade 9 (35 against 13). 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: 96.5% here and 96.1% across Ysleta ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79% across Ysleta ISD 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 20.37 full-time-equivalent teachers for 113 students, Thrive Academy has 5.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 113 students would have about 8.1 teachers, so Thrive Academy has 12.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Thrive Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Cesar Chavez Academy, 1.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 35 other high schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

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