AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY

AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a very small elementary campus in GALVESTON, Texas, one of the schools within AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY. The school works with 167 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY sits 68% below that benchmark.

AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a school of AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Galveston County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.3%; AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY posts 56.7%, +19.5 points above that line.

In the area at large, Galveston County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,105, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one of 95 public schools in Galveston County (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students).

Nearest neighbor: BURNET EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 46%: 308 students in 2018 compared to 167 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 51% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for AMBASSADORS PREPARATORY ACADEMY typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.