Wheatley Alternative Education Center

Size

Wheatley Alternative Education Center is the only school in Temple ISD. Its 55 students are 0.6% of the district's 8,764. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 23 miles away with a median enrollment of 228; Wheatley Alternative Education 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 9 with 15 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 1, against an average of 6 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 1 in grade 1 and 1 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 41.8% here and 22% across Temple ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 38.2%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

76.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.4% across Temple ISD and a median of 61.6% for Texas 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 5.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 55 students, Wheatley Alternative Education Center has 9.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 55 students would have about 5 teachers, so Wheatley Alternative Education Center has 1 more.

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

Location

Wheatley Alternative Education Center is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other school is Priority Charter Schools Temple, 5.5 miles away in Priority Charter Schools. 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.