FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH

Located at 9100 E US HWY 290, in AUSTIN, Texas, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH is an one-room-style elementary-level community that hosts 144 students (grades K through 8), operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES. That puts it 72% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

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

On the student-mix side, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 23% White, 20% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.2%; actual is 30.3%, a gap of -26.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Travis County shows median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

The closest other public school is MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI FOR ALL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH. On composite proficiency, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-AUSTIN NORTH has fell 19%, going from 178 students in 2018 to 144 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 57% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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