CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN

As a close-knit elementary-level community in MIDLAND, Texas, CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN instructs 218 students from grades K through 8, part of TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

Within TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, which oversees 44 schools and 17,100 students, CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN records that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 38% White, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Midland County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 58.6%; this one comes in at 31.0%, -27.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Midland County put median household earnings sit near $92,874, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN is one of 52 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students).

Nearest neighbor: PREMIER H S OF MIDLAND, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. CLASSICAL ACADEMY - PERMIAN BASIN operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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