# FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SCHERTZ

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480016313495`
- **School name**: FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SCHERTZ
- **Location**: SCHERTZ, TX 78154
- **Address**: 8453 E FM 1518 N
- **District**: TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES (LEAID `4800163`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.51053, -98.23977
- **Phone**: (972)316-3663

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 774
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 77
  - support_label: Targeted Support

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.7% proficient — 68 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 30.9% proficient, 11.8% advanced — 68 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 83.6% proficient — 1,217 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.6% proficient, 17.6% advanced — 1,217 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 90.5% proficient — 42 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 78.6% proficient, 21.4% advanced — 42 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 90.9% proficient — 44 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.3% proficient, 27.3% advanced — 44 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 97.6% proficient — 42 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 90.5% proficient, 26.2% advanced — 42 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 82.3% proficient — 447 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 82.3% proficient — 62 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 85.5% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 87.3% proficient — 71 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 70.1% proficient — 77 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 78.4% proficient — 74 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 42.3% proficient, 12.1% advanced — 447 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 48.4% proficient, 1.6% advanced — 62 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.5% (50 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 38.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 5.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 48.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 30.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.9% — 39 students
- **English Learners**: 0.5% — 4 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $10,294,330
- **Federal share**: 3.6%
- **State share**: 95.4%
- **Local share**: 1.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $4,961,806

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $108,094
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,965
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.8 miles (ELDORADO CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.87 miles (THE WORD CHURCH)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SCHERTZ
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.63417 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.2 miles

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/founders-classical-academy-of-schertz-schertz/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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