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FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND
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As a heavily attended K-12 campus in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND enrolls 949 students from grades K through 12, part of TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES. Compared to the state average of about 485 students per school, that is 96% above typical.
Across the 44 schools in TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES (17,100 students total), FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND reports that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 22% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND higher than the state norm the norm. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 72.2%, a residual of +2.8 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND is one campus in the mix.
LIBERTY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.1%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 123%: 426 students in 2018 compared to 949 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 10% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.
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