Wheatley Alternative Education Center

5 years of ratings

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years.

How this school's change over time is ranked

TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where Wheatley Alternative Education Center itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.

Texas schools

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.

• Student Achievement—Not reported · similar 71.1 · region 77.1
• School Progress—Not reported · similar 78.4 · region 78.6
• Closing the Gaps—Not reported · similar 74.4 · region 75.4
• Academic Growth—Not reported · similar 72.2 · region 72.2
• Relative Performance—Not reported · similar 76.6 · region 76.1

• Wheatley Alternative Education Center
• Similar student population (2,333)
• Region 12: Waco (301)

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 student population (2,333)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The tick on each bar marks the average for Similar student population (2,333 schools) — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students

66

Economically disadvantaged

84.8%−0.6 pts vs similar

English learners

3.0%−31.5 pts vs similar

Special education

43.9%+25.5 pts vs similar

Attendance

80.4%−12.7 pts vs similar

Chronically absent

49.6%+27.7 pts vs similar

Student demographics

• African American 34.8%
• Hispanic 42.4%
• White 16.7%
• American Indian 1.5%
• Two or More Races 4.5%

Spending per student

Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.

• Wheatley Alternative Education Center
• TEA peer group
• Texas average

TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.

Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.

Teachers

Average salary

$58,743−$8,850 vs similar

Teachers

9

Students per staff member

7.8

Teaching experience

• Beginning 11.8%
• 1 to 5 years 35.3%
• 11 to 20 years 29.4%
• 21 to 30 years 11.8%
• Over 30 years 11.8%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 76 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

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  Per-student spending

  Bell County · of the 100 that report this measure · tied with 13

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These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this campus ranks poorly. Each statement below states its cohort and its denominator so it can be checked — a rank without an n is a boast, not a fact. Ties are shown because a shared ceiling is not a sole first place. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

Single-file records are pre-built for districts only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 014909005.