IDEA Bluff Springs College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Bluff Springs College Preparatory is the 26th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 494; IDEA Bluff Springs College Preparatory 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 7 with 129 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 64, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 12 has 43% fewer students than grade 6 (67 against 118). 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: 83.2% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.2% 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 40.39 full-time-equivalent teachers for 689 students, IDEA Bluff Springs College Preparatory has 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 689 students would have about 49.2 teachers, so IDEA Bluff Springs College Preparatory has 8.8 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Bluff Springs 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 Akins Early College High School, 1.9 miles away in Austin ISD. Within 10 miles there are 27 other high schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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