Ranked list · Texas open-enrollment charter school districts
Texas open-enrollment charter school districts with the highest per-student spending in 2025-26
162 districts · in 2025-26 · TEA data fetched 15 August 2026
Per-student spending, as TEA published it in 2025-26. Measured across Texas open-enrollment charter school districts, of which 162 districts are ranked below.
What this ranking counts
162 districts of 179 districts are ranked here.
14 were not rated by TEA for 2025-26 and are not ranked.
3 reported no figure for this measure and are not ranked.
Ordered from the highest figure downward.
4 of the ranked districts share a placement with at least one other. Tied districts print the same placement and the next placement skips, so two districts sharing 3rd are both 3rd and the one behind them is 5th.
A ranking by a raw figure is not a measure of teaching quality on its own: it correlates with school size and, more strongly, with how many of a school's students live in poverty. Every entity page on this site instead compares a school against a peer group — districts with districts, campuses with campuses — whose share of economically disadvantaged students falls within 10 percentage points of its own. This list does not: it orders by the raw figure alone. How the peer group is chosen.
The top 20
Ranked 1st to 20th. The full list follows.
| Rank | District | Administrative county | Rating | Per-student spending | Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Up Excellence Academy | Harris | F | $47,061 | 116 |
| 2nd | Thrive Center for Success | Montgomery | B | $37,634 | 177 |
| 3rd | Celebrate Dyslexia Schools | Bexar | F | $31,188 | 100 |
| 4th | Comquest Academy | Harris | B | $27,412 | 35 |
| 5th | Promesa Academy Charter School | Bexar | D | $26,791 | 275 |
| 6th | The Rhodes School for Performing Arts | Harris | B | $25,926 | 405 |
| 7th | Essence Preparatory Charter School | Bexar | F | $24,568 | 438 |
| 8th | Betty M Condra School for Education Innovation | Lubbock | D | $21,541 | 168 |
| 9th | Houston Classical Charter School | Harris | A | $21,356 | 430 |
| 10th | University of Texas University Charter School | Travis | B | $21,119 | 695 |
| 11th | New Frontiers Public Schools Inc | Bexar | B | $20,074 | 335 |
| 12th | Nova Academy | Dallas | F | $19,634 | 67 |
| 13th | Bloom Academy Charter School | Harris | F | $19,510 | 364 |
| 14th | Academy of Accelerated Learning Inc | Harris | B | $19,417 | 711 |
| 15th | Katherine Anne Porter School | Hays | D | $19,353 | 76 |
| 16th | Draw Academy | Harris | C | $18,831 | 695 |
| 17th | St Mary's Academy Charter School | Bee | C | $18,746 | 329 |
| 18th | East Fort Worth Montessori Academy | Tarrant | D | $18,706 | 106 |
| 19th | Southwest Preparatory School | Bexar | C | $18,157 | 849 |
| 20th | Inspire Academies | Bexar | C | $18,093 | 1,158 |
The full list: all 162 districts
What this list leaves out, and the other lists
This site does not publish the other end of this ordering. This page shows the better-performing end of per-student spending; there is no matching list of the districts doing worst on it. Every district's own page shows its figure for this measure.
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Where this comes from
The ranked measure and accountability context come from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. Enrollment shown as context comes from TEA's separate PEIMS Student Program reports. TEA publishes the ratings; it does not publish this ordering. This site is unofficial and is not affiliated with TEA. How this site works records the snapshot this page was built from and what this site does and does not verify about it.
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