Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Bryan/Col

Size

Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Bryan/Col is the smallest of Brazos School for Inquiry & Creativity's 2 elementary schools; its 149 students are 49.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 419; Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Bryan/Col is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 45 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 8, against an average of 17 per grade. This year grade 7 has 56% fewer students than kindergarten (8 against 18). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 67.1% here and 60.3% across Brazos School for Inquiry & Creativity. Black students are next, at 22.8%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Brazos School for Inquiry & Creativity and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 11.65 full-time-equivalent teachers for 149 students, Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Bryan/Col has 12.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 149 students would have about 10.1 teachers, so Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Bryan/Col has 1.6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Bryan/Col is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Henderson Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Bryan ISD. Within 10 miles there are 26 other elementary schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.