COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY

COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY operates as a tiny 9-12 campus in BASTROP, Texas, operated by BASTROP ISD. Current enrollment sits at 190 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 76% smaller than typical.

Within BASTROP ISD, which oversees 16 schools and 13,370 students, COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%; the rest comes out to 27% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Bastrop County as a whole is about 45% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bastrop County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 54.8%; actual is 82.6%, +27.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bastrop County) records that median household earnings sit near $86,226, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Bastrop County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,931 students), of which COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: GENESIS H S, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. COLORADO RIVER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 215 (now 190). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.