Hitchcock Headstart

Size

Hitchcock Headstart is the only school in Hitchcock ISD. Its 181 students are 9% of the district's 2,012. The 8 nearest schools are a median 30.1 miles away and have a median of 252 students, so Hitchcock Headstart is smaller than most of them.

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

Hitchcock Headstart serves a single grade, pre-K, with 181 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 58.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Hitchcock ISD (39.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 27.1%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 77.3% across Hitchcock ISD and a median of 85.7% for Texas 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

Hitchcock Headstart has 0.99 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 182.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 17, a school with 181 students would have about 10.6 teachers, so Hitchcock Headstart has 9.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (17).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, midsize, which means it is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other school is Calvin Vincent Pre-K Head Start, 6.9 miles away in Texas City ISD. There are 0 schools within 5 miles and 1 within 10 miles.

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