FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY- CARROLLTON
CARROLLTON · TX · TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES · Public charter · K-12 combined
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HUIE SPECIAL EDUC CTR → PIONEER TECHNOLOGY AND ARTS ACADEMY NORTH DALLAS → LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY → LETOT CAMPUS → TRIVIUM ACADEMY → UNIVERSAL ACADEMY - COPPELL → MANARA LEADERSHIP ACADEMY → GRIMES EDUCATION CENTER →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY- CARROLLTON compares for families
What families should know about FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY- CARROLLTON.
- ▸ LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: HUIE SPECIAL EDUC CTR, PIONEER TECHNOLOGY AND ARTS ACADEMY NORTH DALLAS, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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.
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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.
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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 -0.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 579 students:
≈ 23 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 $10,488 per student in district revenue, the 23 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $241,224/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.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HUIE SPECIAL EDUC CTR CARROLLTON |
Public | 1.7 | 56 | — |
| PIONEER TECHNOLOGY AND ARTS ACADEMY NORTH DALLAS DALLAS |
Public · charter | 6.1 | 46 | — |
| LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LEWISVILLE |
Public · charter | 5.8 | 47 | — |
| LETOT CAMPUS DALLAS |
Public · charter | 7.8 | 37 | — |
| TRIVIUM ACADEMY CARROLLTON |
Public · charter | 3.4 | 77 | +32.8% |
| UNIVERSAL ACADEMY - COPPELL COPPELL |
Public · charter | 4.0 | 78 | +34.5% |
| MANARA LEADERSHIP ACADEMY IRVING |
Public · charter | 7.9 | 68 | -22.7% |
| GRIMES EDUCATION CENTER CARROLLTON |
Public | 3.1 | 99 | +52.3% |