Original Research by School Decision on Fairview Daep
Fairview DAEP is a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program operating in San Angelo, Texas, under the umbrella of Sterling City ISD. DAEPs are a standard feature of Texas public education, designed to serve students who have been removed from their home campus for disciplinary reasons. The placement is temporary by design, and families typically do not choose this school in the way they would a neighborhood school or a magnet program.
The enrollment data reflects this: the school serves a single grade-level cohort and, at the time of the data, had only one enrolled student. Because of that extremely small enrollment, Texas suppresses or omits all reported test score data to protect student privacy. No STAAR proficiency results are available for any subject, and that absence is entirely a function of the school's enrollment size and its alternative status, not a reflection of instructional quality that can be measured here. Multi-year trend data is similarly suppressed across every subject and performance tier. A graduation rate does not apply in the way it would at a comprehensive high school, and chronic absenteeism data was not reported. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility figures were not available in the data provided.
Civil rights data, program offerings, staffing details, and course access information were all absent from the data payload, so those dimensions cannot be characterized.
The school sits at an address on Fairview School Road in San Angelo. The city itself is a mid-sized West Texas hub anchored by Goodfellow Air Force Base, a large regional medical center, Angelo State University, and San Angelo ISD as major employers. The Concho River Walk runs through a historic downtown that mixes civic, arts, and commercial uses, and the wider city is largely auto-oriented. Public transit routes cover all parts of the city. The housing market in the area has seen median sale prices soften modestly year over year, with homes sitting on the market longer than in recent peak years, and both ownership and rental options exist. Home values in the relevant zip code sit below the national benchmark but slightly above the Texas statewide figure, and rents have been rising at a rate faster than home prices.
For Sterling City ISD broadly, a search for parent-relevant district changes turned up nothing that could be confirmed before the research budget was exhausted, so district-level strategic priorities or recent changes were left out rather than guessed at.
For a parent whose child has been placed at Fairview DAEP, the relevant questions are likely not about comparing this school academically against county peers, since the comparison framework cannot apply here given the missing data and the school's specific purpose. The more practical questions are about the re-entry pathway back to the student's home campus, what academic continuity looks like during the placement, and what support services the placement includes. Those would be best addressed directly with Sterling City ISD and the counseling staff at the assigned campus.
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