Spending per student · 2025
- This school
- $9,049
- Selected comparison
- $11,872
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Traditional public school campus
McLennan County · Region 12: Waco · 3 students
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At a glance
TEA did not issue an overall rating for Challenge Academy for 2025-26. Everything TEA did publish for this school is below.
TEA did not issue an overall rating for Challenge Academy for 2025-26. Everything TEA did publish for this school is below.
TEA did not issue an overall rating for Challenge Academy for 2025-26. Everything TEA did publish for this school is below.
TEA did not issue an overall rating for Challenge Academy for 2025-26. Everything TEA did publish for this school is below.
TEA did not issue an overall rating for Challenge Academy for 2025-26. Everything TEA did publish for this school is below.
TEA did not issue an overall rating for this school. Scores below are the figures TEA published; the letter grades are the state's where it issued them.
Put the numbers in context
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Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.
| Year | Rating | Score | Selected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rate | StateTexas average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Not Rated | — | 86.4 1,123 reporting | 81.3 7,646 reporting |
| 2024-25 | Not Rated | — | 86.3 1,099 reporting | 81.2 7,554 reporting |
| 2022-23 | Not Rated | — | 85.3 1,070 reporting | 79.1 7,377 reporting |
Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | — | Not rated | — |
| School Progress | — | Not rated | — |
| Closing the Gaps | — | Not rated | — |
| Academic Growth | — | Not rated | — |
| Relative Performance | — | Not rated | — |
The scores above are the ones TEA published. TEA did not issue letter grades for this school, so none are shown: the A–F thresholds marked on the chart are the state's, but applying them here would produce a grade the state chose to withhold.
Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.
Challenge Academy
Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,123 reporting for every category shown · 1,123 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For Region 12: Waco · 301 reporting for every category shown · 301 in full cohort
Selected comparison average For McLennan County · 83 reporting for every category shown · 83 in full cohort
Statewide average 7,646 reporting for every category shown · 7,646 Texas schools in full cohort
Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.
The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.
The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.
The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.
For 2025, TEA reported $9,049 per student for this campus, $13,883 per student for its parent district, Midway ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.
Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.
| Year | Challenge Academy | Parent district: Midway ISD | Texas average | Selected comparison average | Reportingselected comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $11,725 | $10,262 | $13,054 | $7,628 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 997 rated schools reporting |
| 2019 | $17,328 | $11,161 | $13,108 | $7,742 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,012 rated schools reporting |
| 2020 | $18,075 | $11,669 | $14,058 | $8,093 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,020 rated schools reporting |
| 2023 | $4,262 | $15,559 | $16,792 | $10,305 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,071 rated schools reporting |
| 2025 | $9,049 | $13,883 | $18,972 | $11,872 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,099 rated schools reporting |
The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.
The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.
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