IDEA Academy

Size

IDEA Academy is the 3rd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 744 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 431 students, so IDEA Academy 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 137 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 85, against an average of 124 per grade. This year grade 5 has 59% more students than kindergarten (135 against 85). 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 95.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.3% 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 has 34.53 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 744 students would have about 50.3 teachers, so IDEA Academy has 15.8 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 M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy, 0.3 miles away in Donna ISD. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 76 within 10 miles.

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