TEXASWORKS - ABILENE

TEXASWORKS - ABILENE, a rural-scale high school in ABILENE, Texas, overseen by TEXAS WORKS, instructs 36 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 95% smaller than typical.

TEXAS WORKS comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 446 students; TEXASWORKS - ABILENE is among them.

Looking at the student body, TEXASWORKS - ABILENE logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 33% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Taylor County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 36.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TEXASWORKS - ABILENE higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, Taylor County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,139 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. TEXASWORKS - ABILENE is one of 54 public schools in Taylor County (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students).

PREMIER H S OF ABILENE 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.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. TEXASWORKS - ABILENE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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