ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL hosts 676 students from grades K through 8, operated by ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 30% above typical.

ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, a district that instructs 979 students overall.

On demographics, ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Asian at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 46% Hispanic, 7% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, 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), ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BAKER-RIPLEY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 41.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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