FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC

FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC, an one-room-style senior high in TEMPLE, Texas, run under TEMPLE ISD, educates 77 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 90% smaller than the state mean of about 796.

TEMPLE ISD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,073 students. FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC is one of those campuses.

Demographically, FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 21% White, 21% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bell County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bell County indicate median household income runs about $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).

TEMPLE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC has edged down 40%, going from 128 students in 2018 to 77 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 33% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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