Ignite Community School - Garland

Size

Ignite Community School - Garland is the 8th largest of Texas College Preparatory Academies' 17 elementary schools; its 227 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 488; Ignite Community School - Garland 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 grade 3 with 29 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 16, against an average of 23 per grade. This year grade 8 has 63% more students than kindergarten (26 against 16). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 77.1% here and 31.4% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. Black students are next, at 14.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.6% 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 14.01 full-time-equivalent teachers for 227 students, Ignite Community School - Garland has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 227 students would have about 15.3 teachers, so Ignite Community School - Garland has 1.3 fewer.

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 - Garland 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 Caldwell Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Garland ISD. Within 10 miles there are 181 other elementary schools, 58 of them within 5 miles.

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