Heritage Academy of Windcrest

Size

Heritage Academy of Windcrest is the only elementary school in Heritage Academy. Its 98 students are 16.6% of the district's 589. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 483; Heritage Academy of Windcrest is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools. 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 19 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 9, against an average of 14 per grade. This year grade 5 has 40% fewer students than kindergarten (9 against 15). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 19 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 43.9% here and 83.4% across Heritage Academy. Black students are next, at 35.7%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.6% across Heritage Academy 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 10.3 full-time-equivalent teachers for 98 students, Heritage Academy of Windcrest has 9.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 98 students would have about 6.6 teachers, so Heritage Academy of Windcrest has 3.7 more.

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

Location

Heritage Academy of Windcrest is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Compass Rose Journey, 0.3 miles away in Compass Rose Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 123 other elementary schools, 43 of them within 5 miles.

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