Enrollment in 2025–26
- This school
- 52
- Selected comparison
- 577.7
Traditional public school campus
Challenge Academy
McLennan County · Region 12: Waco · 52 students
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Not Rated
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.
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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.
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2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years.
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.
View the yearly scores and comparisons
| Year | Rating | Score | Selected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rate | StateTexas average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Not Rated | — | 77.6 2,328 reporting | 81.3 7,646 reporting |
| 2024-25 | Not Rated | — | 77.2 2,309 reporting | 81.2 7,554 reporting |
| 2023-24 | Not Rated | — | 73.9 2,291 reporting | 78.9 7,466 reporting |
| 2022-23 | Not Rated | — | 73.6 2,281 reporting | 79.1 7,377 reporting |
| 2021-22 | Not Rated | — | 81.8 2,254 reporting | 83.7 7,283 reporting |
Where the score comes from
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.
- Challenge Academy
- Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,328 in cohort)
| 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.
Student outcomes
STAAR performance
- Approaches grade level
- Meets grade level
- Masters grade level
- Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,328 in cohort)
Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.
Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.
Who this school serves
Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.
- Students
- 52
- Economically disadvantaged
- 90.4%+0.3 pts vs similar economic context
- English learners
- 13.5%−26.0 pts vs similar economic context
- Special education
- 36.5%+18.7 pts vs similar economic context
- Attendance
- 73.4%−19.6 pts vs similar economic context
- Chronically absent
- 71.9%+49.0 pts vs similar economic context
Student demographics
Challenge Academy
- African American 50%
- Hispanic 40.4%
- White 7.7%
- Two or More Races 1.9%
Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,328 reporting for every category shown · 2,328 in full cohort
- African American 14.7%
- Hispanic 75.7%
- White 6.2%
- American Indian 0.3%
- Asian 1.3%
- Pacific Islander 0.1%
- Two or More Races 1.7%
Selected comparison average For Region 12: Waco · 301 reporting for every category shown · 301 in full cohort
- African American 14.2%
- Hispanic 37.4%
- White 40.7%
- American Indian 0.3%
- Asian 1.1%
- Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Two or More Races 5.7%
Selected comparison average For McLennan County · 83 reporting for every category shown · 83 in full cohort
- African American 13.9%
- Hispanic 38.4%
- White 42.1%
- American Indian 0.3%
- Asian 0.9%
- Pacific Islander 0.1%
- Two or More Races 4.3%
Selected comparison average For similarly sized schools · 119 reporting for every category shown · 119 in full cohort
- African American 9.3%
- Hispanic 50.6%
- White 35.4%
- American Indian 0.3%
- Asian 1.2%
- Pacific Islander 0.2%
- Two or More Races 3.1%
Statewide average 7,646 reporting for every category shown · 7,646 Texas schools in full cohort
- African American 11.5%
- Hispanic 52.6%
- White 27.8%
- American Indian 0.3%
- Asian 4.2%
- Pacific Islander 0.1%
- Two or More Races 3.4%
Student counts behind the percentages
Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.
- Students in this TEA accountability summary
- 52
- Economically disadvantaged students
- 47
- Emergent bilingual students
- 7
- Special education students
- 19
TEA context labels
- Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP)
Campus mobility · 2024–25
- Mobile students
- 132
- Students in TEA mobility denominator
- 134
- TEA-published mobility rate
- 98.5%
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.
Enrollment over time
TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.
TEA reported 52 students in 2025–26, no change from 2024–25.
- Latest enrollment
- 52
2025–26
- Change from 2024–25
- 0
No change
- Change since 2021–22
- +31
Increase · +147.6%
| School year | Students enrolledChallenge Academy | Change from previous school year | Average enrollmentselected comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | 21 | First available year | 622.7 |
| 2022–23 | 25 | Increase of 4 (19.0%) | 619 |
| 2023–24 | 30 | Increase of 5 (20.0%) | 609.2 |
| 2024–25 | 52 | Increase of 22 (73.3%) | 602.7 |
| 2025–26 | 52 | No change | 577.7 |
The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.
Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.
These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.
Discipline and removal from class
TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.
| School year | Cumulative enrollment | Studentsall discipline | Students% of enrollment | Actionsall discipline | Actionsper 100 students | Studentsselected comparison average % | Actionsselected comparison average per 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–21 | Not reported | 11 | — | 11 | — | — | — |
| 2021–22 | Not reported | 10 | — | 10 | — | — | — |
| 2022–23 | Not reported | 28 | — | 30 | — | — | — |
| 2023–24 | Not reported | 28 | — | 28 | — | — | — |
Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.
Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.
Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.
Spending per student
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.
- Challenge Academy
- Parent district: Waco ISD
- Texas average
- Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate
Spending per student · 2025
- This school
- $13,520
- Selected comparison
- $13,170
For 2025, TEA reported $13,520 per student for this campus, $22,564 per student for its parent district, Waco ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.
Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.
View yearly spending figures
| Year | Challenge Academy | Parent district: Waco ISD | Texas average | Selected comparison average | Reportingselected comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | $20,768 | $12,104 | $13,054 | $8,301 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,195 rated schools reporting |
| 2019 | $28,558 | $12,288 | $13,108 | $8,319 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,225 rated schools reporting |
| 2020 | $28,619 | $12,730 | $14,058 | $8,827 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,232 rated schools reporting |
| 2021 | $42,274 | $14,324 | $14,797 | $9,634 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,236 rated schools reporting |
| 2022 | $28,760 | $16,776 | $15,708 | $11,160 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,254 rated schools reporting |
| 2023 | $24,065 | $25,534 | $16,792 | $11,691 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,280 rated schools reporting |
| 2024 | $19,933 | $27,839 | $18,125 | $12,566 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,294 rated schools reporting |
| 2025 | $13,520 | $22,564 | $18,972 | $13,170 | average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,307 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.
Teachers
- Average salary
- $61,504−$6,634 vs similar economic context
- Teachers
- 6−34.5 vs similar economic context
- Students per staff member
- 8.7−5.9 vs similar economic context
Teaching experience
Challenge Academy
- Beginning 16.7%
- 1 to 5 years 16.7%
- 6 to 10 years 50%
- 21 to 30 years 16.7%
Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,328 reporting for every category shown · 2,328 in full cohort
- Beginning 7.5%
- 1 to 5 years 27.2%
- 6 to 10 years 18.8%
- 11 to 20 years 27.1%
- 21 to 30 years 15%
- Over 30 years 3.4%
Selected comparison average For Region 12: Waco · 301 reporting for every category shown · 301 in full cohort
- Beginning 6.8%
- 1 to 5 years 26.8%
- 6 to 10 years 19%
- 11 to 20 years 27.1%
- 21 to 30 years 16.2%
- Over 30 years 4.2%
Selected comparison average For McLennan County · 83 reporting for every category shown · 83 in full cohort
- Beginning 6.3%
- 1 to 5 years 26%
- 6 to 10 years 19.6%
- 11 to 20 years 27.2%
- 21 to 30 years 15.9%
- Over 30 years 4.9%
Selected comparison average For similarly sized schools · 119 reporting for every category shown · 119 in full cohort
- Beginning 6.4%
- 1 to 5 years 22%
- 6 to 10 years 14.1%
- 11 to 20 years 26.5%
- 21 to 30 years 16.6%
- Over 30 years 6.9%
Statewide average 7,646 reporting for every category shown · 7,646 Texas schools in full cohort
- Beginning 6.2%
- 1 to 5 years 25.6%
- 6 to 10 years 19.2%
- 11 to 20 years 28.7%
- 21 to 30 years 15.9%
- Over 30 years 3.7%
Where this comes from
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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