WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL serves 595 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES.

WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL is one of 44 schools operated by TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, a district that educates 17,100 students overall.

On demographics, WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL reports that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 31% Black, 7% Asian, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL is one.

TEXAS CONNECTIONS ACADEMY AT HOUSTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. WESTCHASE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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