Ignite Community School - Beaumont

Size

Of the 17 elementary schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, Ignite Community School - Beaumont is the 14th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4.8 miles away and have a median of 524 students, so Ignite Community School - Beaumont 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 kindergarten with 33 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 14, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 6 has 52% fewer students than kindergarten (16 against 33). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 73.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas College Preparatory Academies (15.3%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 37.6% across Texas College Preparatory Academies 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

Ignite Community School - Beaumont has 11.25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 179 students would have about 12.1 teachers, so Ignite Community School - Beaumont 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Homer Dr. Elementary School, 1 miles away in Beaumont ISD. There are 4 elementary schools within 5 miles and 18 within 10 miles.

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