IDEA Academy San Benito

Size

IDEA Academy San Benito is the 33rd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 685 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 423; IDEA Academy San Benito 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 3 with 134 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 77, against an average of 114 per grade. This year grade 5 has 73% more students than kindergarten (133 against 77). 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 Hispanic students: 94.6% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.3% 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 36.13 full-time-equivalent teachers for 685 students, IDEA Academy San Benito has 19 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 685 students would have about 46.3 teachers, so IDEA Academy San Benito has 10.2 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 San Benito is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Horizon Montessori III - STEM Academy, 0.9 miles away in Horizon Montessori Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 36 other elementary schools, 22 of them within 5 miles.

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