EARLY COLLEGE T-STEM ACADEMY
HOUSTON · TX · RAUL YZAGUIRRE SCHOOLS FOR SUCCESS · Public charter
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GEORGE I SANCHEZ CHARTER → TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON HOBBY → JONES FUTURES ACADEMY → EASTWOOD ACADEMY → HOUSTON GATEWAY ACADEMY - CORAL CAMPUS → YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE → H S FOR LAW AND JUSTICE → TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON NORTH →📋 At a glance
- 📚 4 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 6 physics · 4 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 64th percentile nationally
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How EARLY COLLEGE T-STEM ACADEMY compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 64th percentile nationally with 4 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: GEORGE I SANCHEZ CHARTER, TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON HOBBY, JONES FUTURES ACADEMY and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
64th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
The University of Texas at Austin
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $19,857/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
💰 Pay for college in Texas
Texas's public scholarships
Texas families have two big levers: a guaranteed-admission rule for the top of each graduating class, and the need-based TEXAS Grant that pairs with it. Class rank does more here than almost anywhere.
Graduate in the top 10% of your Texas public-HS class and finish the required curriculum for automatic admission to TX public universities (UT Austin caps at the top 5%). (Must finish the required college-prep curriculum (Distinguished plan).)
Official program details ↗Texas's flagship need-based grant — no GPA gate to qualify (a 3.0 or top-third rank just gives priority when funds run short). (Enroll within 16 months of HS, ≥¾ time, in a bachelor's program.)
Official program details ↗Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan plus a 3.0 GPA and an 80th-percentile test (or top-10% rank) for a TEXAS Grant-sized scholarship. (Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan.)
Official program details ↗Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 303 students:
≈ 10 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $15,360 per student in district revenue, the 10 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $153,600/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGE I SANCHEZ CHARTER HOUSTON |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 303 | -12.4% |
| TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON HOBBY DALLAS |
Public · charter | 3.0 | 322 | -10.3% |
| JONES FUTURES ACADEMY HOUSTON |
Public | 4.1 | 298 | -1.0% |
| EASTWOOD ACADEMY HOUSTON |
Public | 4.0 | 365 | -8.3% |
| HOUSTON GATEWAY ACADEMY - CORAL CAMPUS HOUSTON |
Public · charter | 1.4 | 429 | +7.0% |
| YES PREP - SOUTHSIDE HOUSTON |
Public · charter | 3.5 | 410 | -10.7% |
| H S FOR LAW AND JUSTICE HOUSTON |
Public | 5.0 | 391 | -10.9% |
| TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON NORTH HOUSTON |
Public · charter | 7.9 | 254 | -32.4% |