IDEA Achieve Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Achieve Academy is the 54th largest, with 0.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 371; IDEA Achieve 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 129 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 75, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (100 against 79). 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: 62.9% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 22.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.1% 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 30.95 full-time-equivalent teachers for 585 students, IDEA Achieve Academy has 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 585 students would have about 39.5 teachers, so IDEA Achieve Academy has 8.5 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 Achieve Academy is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Birdville Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Birdville ISD. Within 10 miles there are 179 other elementary schools, 44 of them within 5 miles.

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