CARTER ACADEMY

As a substantial primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, CARTER ACADEMY instructs 789 students from grades 1 through 5, operated by ALDINE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so CARTER ACADEMY sits 52% above that benchmark.

Across the 76 schools in ALDINE ISD (56,419 students total), CARTER ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CARTER ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 22% Black, 4% Asian, 2% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, CARTER ACADEMY logs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at CARTER ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, CARTER ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 34.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), CARTER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

IMPACT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARTER ACADEMY at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. CARTER ACADEMY's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 794 (now 789). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 70% across the same window.

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