RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO

RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO operates as a micro-enrollment secondary school in AMARILLO, Texas, overseen by RICHARD MILBURN ALTER HIGH SCHOOL (KILLEEN). Current enrollment sits at 133 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 83% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Across the 9 schools in RICHARD MILBURN ALTER HIGH SCHOOL (KILLEEN) (1,607 students total), RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 39% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO higher than the state norm the norm. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Randall County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Randall County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,864 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO is one of 43 public schools in Randall County (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students).

Nearest neighbor: WESTERN PLATEAU EL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY AMARILLO's enrollment has declined 35% since 2018, when it stood at 205 (now 133). Hispanic enrollment moved from 45% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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