IDEA a W Brown College Preparatory

Size

Of the 16 middle schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA a W Brown College Preparatory is the 15th largest, with 0.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 509; IDEA a W Brown College Preparatory is smaller than most of them.

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 6 with 71 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 31, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 8 has 56% fewer students than grade 6 (31 against 71). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 85.4% here and 7.7% across IDEA Public Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 12.6%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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

With 12.07 full-time-equivalent teachers for 151 students, IDEA a W Brown College Preparatory has 12.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 151 students would have about 10.5 teachers, so IDEA a W Brown College Preparatory has 1.6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

IDEA a W Brown College Preparatory is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is T W Browne Middle School, 1.3 miles away in Dallas ISD. Within 10 miles there are 49 other middle schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

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