DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY

DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one of the very small primary schools in DENTON, Texas, overseen by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, with 190 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 63% leaner than typical.

TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 17,100 students; DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY is among them.

Demographically, DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY records that 58% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Denton County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.2%; this one delivers 50.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Denton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

RYAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DENTON CLASSICAL ACADEMY has rose 19%, going from 160 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 63% to 58%. Class-load math has rose: from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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