IDEA Brackenridge College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Brackenridge College Preparatory is the 30th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 671 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 503; IDEA Brackenridge 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 6 with 128 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 54, against an average of 96 per grade. This year grade 12 has 58% fewer students than grade 6 (54 against 128). 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: 90.3% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.1% 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 36.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 671 students, IDEA Brackenridge College Preparatory has 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 671 students would have about 47.9 teachers, so IDEA Brackenridge College Preparatory has 11 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Brackenridge College Preparatory is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Virginia Allred Stacey Junior/Senior High School, 1.8 miles away in Lackland ISD. Within 10 miles there are 59 other high schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

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