LIVE OAK ACADEMY

LIVE OAK ACADEMY, a rural-scale four-year high school in BUDA, Texas, overseen by HAYS CISD, educates 184 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 77% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

LIVE OAK ACADEMY is one of 27 schools operated by HAYS CISD, a district that caters to 24,330 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LIVE OAK ACADEMY records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 49% of students at LIVE OAK ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hays County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,097 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hays County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students), of which LIVE OAK ACADEMY is one.

JACK C HAYS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

LIVE OAK ACADEMY operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LIVE OAK ACADEMY has decreased 7%, going from 198 students in 2018 to 184 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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