PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S

As a tiny four-year high school in WACO, Texas, PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S hosts 233 students from grades 9 through 12, part of RAPOPORT ACADEMY PUBLIC SCHOOL. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S sits 71% below that benchmark.

RAPOPORT ACADEMY PUBLIC SCHOOL runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 898 students. PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S lists that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 23% Black, 21% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.3%; this one delivers 59.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (McLennan County) logs that median household income runs about $66,643, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, McLennan County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,703 students), of which PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S is one.

QUINN CAMPUS PUBLIC MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.0%.

PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S operates from an urban location. PAUL AND JANE MEYER PUBLIC H S is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 44%: 162 students in 2018 compared to 233 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 43% to 52% across the same window.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.