QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH

QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH is one of the small K-5 schools in SHENANDOAH, Texas, part of TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, with 406 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 17,100 students. QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH lists that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 31% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.1%; this one comes in at 39.7%, -21.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TRUE NORTH SHENANDOAH, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), QUEST COLLEGIATE ACADEMY - SHENANDOAH ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 67.4%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 152%: 161 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 49% across the same window.

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