TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST

Set in DALLAS, Texas, TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST is a micro-enrollment secondary school, part of TEXANS CAN ACADEMIES. It hosts 205 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 796.

Across the 13 schools in TEXANS CAN ACADEMIES (3,479 students total), TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST shows that Black students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 41.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, census data for Dallas County shows median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST is one campus in the mix.

ROYCE WEST LEADERSHIP SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - GRANT EAST is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 44%: 369 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 41.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.