IDEA Academy Weslaco

Size

IDEA Academy Weslaco is the 42nd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 649 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 748; IDEA Academy Weslaco 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 4 with 125 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 80, against an average of 108 per grade. This year grade 5 has 46% more students than kindergarten (117 against 80). 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: 95.4% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.6% 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 28.81 full-time-equivalent teachers for 649 students, IDEA Academy Weslaco has 22.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 649 students would have about 43.9 teachers, so IDEA Academy Weslaco has 15.1 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 Weslaco is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is A N Rico Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Weslaco ISD. Within 10 miles there are 46 other elementary schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

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