ELEVATE COLLEGIATE

ELEVATE COLLEGIATE, a rural-scale K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by ELEVATE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL, instructs 192 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

Operationally, ELEVATE COLLEGIATE answers to ELEVATE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, ELEVATE COLLEGIATE logs that nearly all students (83%) are Black; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, ELEVATE COLLEGIATE logs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, ELEVATE COLLEGIATE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.8%; this one comes in at 11.3%, -23.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ELEVATE COLLEGIATE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: A+UP H S, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ELEVATE COLLEGIATE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELEVATE COLLEGIATE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. ELEVATE COLLEGIATE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On this page, members of the ELEVATE COLLEGIATE community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.