QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT

Located at 1303 E HOUSTON AVE, in CROCKETT, Texas, QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT is a micro-enrollment elementary-level community that educates 103 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES. That puts it 80% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT is one of 44 schools operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, a district that instructs 17,100 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 41% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Houston County as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Houston County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.1%; QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT posts 20.1%, -16.1 points below that line.

Around the school, Houston County reports that median household income runs about $56,531, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Houston County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,141 students), of which QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT is one.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - CROCKETT's enrollment has edged down 43% since 2018, when it stood at 182 (now 103). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 24% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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