High · Regular · Grades 7 to 12

The East Austin College Prep at MLK, Austin, TX

Charter schoolCEP schoolThe East Austin College Prep at MLK is a public high school in Austin, part of Valere Public Schools. It enrolled 169 students in 2024-25, with 14.1 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "THE EAST AUSTIN COLLEGE PREP AT MLK".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 169
Teachers (FTE): 12.0
Students per teacher: 14.1
Grades: 7 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.3 lower than the district figure of 17.4. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.1

District17.4

Texas15.1

United States15.3

School details

Address: 5800 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78721
Phone: (512)287-5050
District: Valere Public Schools
County: Travis County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 480141412881

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 120
Reduced-price lunch: 8
Free or reduced-price lunch: 12875.7% 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.

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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.