Summary:
The Etoile Academy Charter School district in Houston, Texas, operates two elementary-level schools serving grades K-7 and K-8, both located in a high-poverty area where over 94% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Within the Etoile Academy Charter School district, the Etoile Academy Charter School-Bissonnet campus stands out as the stronger performer. While the main Etoile Academy Charter School campus ranks in the 1st percentile statewide with a 0-star rating, Bissonnet has improved to the 14th percentile and earned a 1-star rating. Bissonnet consistently outperforms the main campus in core subjects, most notably in 7th-grade Math where its proficiency rate of 51.92% is nearly three times higher than the main campus's 18.75% and even exceeds the state average of 29.41%. Similarly, in 8th-grade Social Studies, Bissonnet's proficiency of 34.21% is more than four times the main campus's 8.42% and also surpasses the state average. Both schools serve a similar student population, with the main campus enrolling 676 students and Bissonnet enrolling 303, and both have comparable student-teacher ratios around 16:1.
A critical concern for both schools is extremely low Science proficiency, with 5th-grade scores of just 1.49% at the main campus and 3.13% at Bissonnet, compared to the state average of 29.57%. The data also shows inconsistent academic progress, such as a drop in 3rd-grade Reading at the main campus from 16.22% to 12.66%, while Bissonnet saw a dramatic jump in 7th-grade Math from 19.3% to 51.92% year-over-year. The main campus reported a very low dropout rate of 0.4% for the 2023-2024 school year. The district should focus on studying Bissonnet's successful practices in Math and Social Studies to replicate them at the main campus, while urgently addressing the critically low Science scores across both schools.
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