FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER

FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER operates as a reasonably sized all-grades campus in TYLER, Texas, operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES. Current enrollment sits at 480 students spanning grades K through 12.

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

On the student-mix side, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER records that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at school resources, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Smith County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the area at large, Smith County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,192, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Smith County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students), FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER is one campus in the mix.

CUMBERLAND ACADEMY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 45.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY-TYLER's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 480). Asian enrollment moved from 3% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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