ACADEMY INT

Located at 107 S PONDALILY, in LITTLE RIVER, Texas, ACADEMY INT is a mid-tier K-5 school that instructs 444 students (grades 3 through 5), operated by ACADEMY ISD.

ACADEMY INT is one of 5 schools operated by ACADEMY ISD, a district that educates 1,832 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ACADEMY INT logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 27% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, ACADEMY INT lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Bell County's rate of about 57%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACADEMY INT tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Bell County shows median household earnings sit near $68,865, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bell County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), ACADEMY INT is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ACADEMY EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ACADEMY INT comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 18%: 376 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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