Ignite Community School - Pasadena

Size

Of the 17 elementary schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, Ignite Community School - Pasadena is the 12th largest, with 1.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 590; Ignite Community School - Pasadena 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 25 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 13, against an average of 19 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 17 in kindergarten and 18 in grade 8. It also enrolls 24 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 76.3% here and 31.4% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. White students are next, at 12.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

72.7% 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 10.56 full-time-equivalent teachers for 194 students, Ignite Community School - Pasadena has 18.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 194 students would have about 13.1 teachers, so Ignite Community School - Pasadena has 2.5 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 - Pasadena is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Fairmont Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Deer Park ISD. Within 10 miles there are 117 other elementary schools, 36 of them within 5 miles.

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