IDEA Academy Pharr

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Academy Pharr is the 16th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 394; IDEA Academy Pharr is larger 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 5 with 132 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 81, against an average of 120 per grade. This year grade 5 has 63% more students than kindergarten (132 against 81). 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

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

93.7% of its students are eligible 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

With 31.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 717 students, IDEA Academy Pharr has 22.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 717 students would have about 48.4 teachers, so IDEA Academy Pharr has 16.9 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Academy Pharr is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Jc Kelly Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Hidalgo ISD. Within 10 miles there are 69 other elementary schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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