Ignite Community School-Fort Worth

Size

Ignite Community School-Fort Worth is the 3rd largest of Texas College Preparatory Academies' 17 elementary schools; its 438 students are 2.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 427; Ignite Community School-Fort Worth is close to their typical size.

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 304 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 11, against an average of 44 per grade. This year grade 8 has 25% more students than kindergarten (15 against 12). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 304 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 60% here and 15.3% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. Hispanic students are next, at 21.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.4% of its students are eligible 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

With 41.95 full-time-equivalent teachers for 438 students, Ignite Community School-Fort Worth has 10.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 438 students would have about 29.6 teachers, so Ignite Community School-Fort Worth has 12.4 more.

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

Location

Ignite Community School-Fort Worth is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Lowery Road, 1.2 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. Within 10 miles there are 174 other elementary schools, 41 of them within 5 miles.

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