Ignite Community School - Huntsville

Size

Ignite Community School - Huntsville is the 6th largest of Texas College Preparatory Academies' 17 elementary schools; its 380 students are 2.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 658 students, so Ignite Community School - Huntsville 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 1 with 44 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 27, against an average of 38 per grade. This year grade 8 has 34% fewer students than kindergarten (27 against 41). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 34 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 43.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Texas College Preparatory Academies (36.9%). Black students are next, at 26.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.7% 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 - Huntsville has 25.25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 380 students would have about 25.7 teachers, so Ignite Community School - Huntsville 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 town, distant, which means it is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is Stewart Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in Huntsville ISD. There are 5 elementary schools within 5 miles and 5 within 10 miles.

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