SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is a cozy secondary school, overseen by SPRING ISD. It works with 391 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 51% below typical.

Across the 42 schools in SPRING ISD (33,678 students total), SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder breaks down as 22% Black, 6% Asian, 5% White, 3% Native American. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.5%; SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY posts 87.9%, +42.4 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is one.

NIMITZ H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SPRING EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 30.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 417 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 51% to 62%.

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