Public school / High
Graduation Preparatory Academy
Austin, Texas
- NCES ID
- 480894014138
- District
- Austin ISD
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Graduation Preparatory Academy is a public high school in Austin, Texas, run by Austin ISD. It enrols 61 students — the 90694th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
61
Teachers
3.0
Students per teacher
20.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Austin ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Bowie H S2,782 students
- 2Akins H S2,613 students
- 3Austin H S2,317 students
- 4Anderson H S2,210 students
- 5Mccallum H S1,824 students
- 6Navarro Early College H S1,649 students
- 7Crockett Echs1,608 students
- 8Lasa H S1,432 students
- Enrollment−88.3%
- Teachers−91.4%
- Students per teacher+39.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.3%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory