Westchase Neighborhood School

Size

Of the 17 elementary schools in Texas College Preparatory Academies, Westchase Neighborhood School is the largest, with 3.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 784; Westchase Neighborhood School 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 pre-K with 249 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 10, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 8 has 83% fewer students than kindergarten (10 against 58). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 249 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 55.6% here and 31.4% across Texas College Preparatory Academies. Black students are next, at 31.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.2% 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 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers for 595 students, Westchase Neighborhood School has 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 595 students would have about 40.2 teachers, so Westchase Neighborhood School has 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

Westchase Neighborhood School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Sneed Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Alief ISD. Within 10 miles there are 176 other elementary schools, 74 of them within 5 miles.

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