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Texans Can Academy - Houston Southwest, Houston, TX

Charter schoolCEP schoolTexans Can Academy - Houston Southwest is a public high school in Houston, part of Texans Can Academies. It enrolled 410 students in 2024-25, with 29.3 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON SOUTHWEST".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
410
Teachers (FTE)
14.0
Students per teacher
29.3
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 29.5. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school29.3
District29.5
Texas15.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
10914 S Gessner, Houston, TX 77071
Phone
(281)918-4316
District
Texans Can Academies
County
Dallas County
Level
High
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
480001613459
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
361
Reduced-price lunch
2
Free or reduced-price lunch
36388.5% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Texans Can Academies

High schools elsewhere in Houston

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.