IDEA Academy San Juan

Size

IDEA Academy San Juan is the 48th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 617 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.8 miles away and have a median of 455 students, so IDEA Academy San Juan 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 128 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 56, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 5 has 129% more students than kindergarten (128 against 56). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 94.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.8% 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 Academy San Juan has 33.14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 617 students would have about 41.7 teachers, so IDEA Academy San Juan has 8.6 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Amanda Garza-Pena Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. There are 36 elementary schools within 5 miles and 110 within 10 miles.

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