Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Tidwell

Size

Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Tidwell is the largest of Brazos School for Inquiry & Creativity's 2 elementary schools; its 151 students are 50.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 562 students, so Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Tidwell 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 32 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 11, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 6 has 52% fewer students than kindergarten (12 against 25). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 32 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 53.6% of enrollment, a lower share than across Brazos School for Inquiry & Creativity (60.3%). Black students are next, at 40.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify 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

Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Tidwell has 10.84 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 151 students would have about 10.2 teachers, so Brazos School for Inquiry and Creativity Tidwell has about as many as that.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Highland Hts Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 58 elementary schools within 5 miles and 195 within 10 miles.

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