IDEA a W Brown Academy

Size

IDEA a W Brown Academy is the 58th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 481 students are 0.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 415 students, so IDEA a W Brown Academy is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 1 with 94 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 57, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 21% fewer students than kindergarten (57 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 59 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 90.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (7.7%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

IDEA a W Brown Academy has 25.82 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 481 students would have about 32.5 teachers, so IDEA a W Brown Academy has 6.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Fairmeadows Elementary School, 1.5 miles away in Duncanville ISD. There are 52 elementary schools within 5 miles and 144 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.