Westchester Academy for International Studies

Size

Of the 5 high schools in Spring Branch ISD, Westchester Academy for International Studies is the smallest, with 2.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 2,396; Westchester Academy for International Studies is smaller than most of them.

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 6 with 151 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 95, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 12 has 37% fewer students than grade 6 (95 against 151). 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: 64.2% here and 55.5% across Spring Branch ISD. White students are next, at 20.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

48.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.6% across Spring Branch ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 62.91 full-time-equivalent teachers for 864 students, Westchester Academy for International Studies has 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 864 students would have about 61.7 teachers, so Westchester Academy for International Studies has 1.2 more.

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

Location

Westchester Academy for International Studies is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Stratford High School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 54 other high schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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