RANCH ACADEMY

RANCH ACADEMY operates as a very small 9-12 campus in CANTON, Texas, one of the schools within RANCH ACADEMY. Current enrollment sits at 64 students spanning grades 6 through 12. That puts it 92% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Operationally, RANCH ACADEMY answers to RANCH ACADEMY, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, RANCH ACADEMY records that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at RANCH ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Van Zandt County's rate of about 56%.

In the broader community, Van Zandt County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,475 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Van Zandt County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,738 students), RANCH ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

MARTINS MILL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around RANCH ACADEMY.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. RANCH ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RANCH ACADEMY has shrank 37%, going from 102 students in 2018 to 64 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 59% across the same window.

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