ACADEMY H S

Set in LITTLE RIVER, Texas, ACADEMY H S is a small four-year high school, part of ACADEMY ISD. It works with 546 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

ACADEMY ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,832 students. ACADEMY H S is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ACADEMY H S reports that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 29% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bell County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ACADEMY H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 34% of students at ACADEMY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bell County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ACADEMY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Across the wider county, Bell County reports that median household income runs about $68,865, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which ACADEMY H S is one.

ACADEMY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ACADEMY H S. On composite proficiency, ACADEMY H S comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 21%: 453 students in 2018 compared to 546 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 71% to 58%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.