IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH

Located at 8601 RANDOL MILL RD, in FORT WORTH, Texas, IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH is a modestly sized K-5 school that works with 438 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES.

TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 17,100 students. IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH is one.

Nearest neighbor: LOWERY ROAD, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.8%.

IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH operates from a city-core location. IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL-FORT WORTH is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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