IDEA Achieve College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Achieve College Preparatory is the 44th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 466 students are 0.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3 miles away with a median enrollment of 755; IDEA Achieve College Preparatory is smaller 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 7 with 109 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 53, against an average of 78 per grade. This year grade 11 has 39% fewer students than grade 6 (53 against 87). 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: 70.8% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 21.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 36.63 full-time-equivalent teachers for 466 students, IDEA Achieve College Preparatory has 12.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 466 students would have about 33.3 teachers, so IDEA Achieve College Preparatory has 3.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

IDEA Achieve College Preparatory is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Bob E Griggs High School, 1.3 miles away in Birdville ISD. Within 10 miles there are 56 other high schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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