IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK

IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK is an elementary-level community of one-room-style scale in DALLAS, Texas, operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, works with 167 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK sits 68% smaller than that benchmark.

Within TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, which oversees 44 schools and 17,100 students, IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 43% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.8%; this one delivers 27.3%.

In the broader community, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: UME DALLAS SECONDARY, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area. IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MOUNTAIN CREEK has contracted 45%, going from 306 students in 2018 to 167 in 2024. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 57% to 52% over that span.

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