Founders Classical Academy of Leander

Founders Classical Academy of Leander is one of the public schools in LEANDER, Texas. It is a medium-sized combined-grade school. It serves 693 students in kindergarten through 12. The average among combined schools in Texas is roughly 485 students; this school is 43% above that.

Founders Classical Academy of Leander is one school in TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, a system of 44 schools with 17,100 students.

Founders Classical Academy of Leander's enrollment is 66% White. The remaining shares are 21% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. By the diversity index, Founders Classical Academy of Leander comes in at 52%.

The school employs the equivalent of 44.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 15.6:1. Among combined schools in Texas, the typical ratio is 11.7:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 8%. That is lower than the 29% average for public schools in Williamson County.

Founders Classical Academy of Leander is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 74% of Texas public K-12 schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.

On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Founders Classical Academy of Leander is 9.2 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 61.2% actual, 70.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Texas.

According to the American Community Survey, in Williamson County, median household income is about $111,340, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 48% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Founders Classical Academy of Leander is one of 208 public schools in Williamson County, which together enroll about 126,147 students.

The nearest other public school, Pleasant Hill Elementary School, is about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Founders Classical Academy of Leander places 1st out of 6 schools in its immediate area.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Founders Classical Academy of Leander is run as a public charter school.

Federal data show 686 students in 2020-21 and 693 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.

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