Ignite Community School - Mainland

Size

Of the 17 elementary schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, Ignite Community School - Mainland is the 7th largest, with 2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 485; Ignite Community School - Mainland 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 2 with 48 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 14, against an average of 33 per grade. This year grade 8 has 47% fewer students than kindergarten (21 against 40). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 42 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 61.8% here and 15.3% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. Hispanic students are next, at 29.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.5% 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 21.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 327 students, Ignite Community School - Mainland has 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 327 students would have about 22.1 teachers, so Ignite Community School - Mainland 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

Ignite Community School - Mainland is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Simms Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Texas City ISD. Within 10 miles there are 24 other elementary schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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