IDEA Burke Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Burke Academy is the 9th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 548 students, so IDEA Burke 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 5 with 137 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 101, against an average of 122 per grade. This year grade 5 has 36% more students than kindergarten (137 against 101). 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 73.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 12.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.9% 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 Burke Academy has 31.47 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 23.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 730 students would have about 49.3 teachers, so IDEA Burke Academy has 17.8 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 Big Country Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Southwest ISD. There are 39 elementary schools within 5 miles and 124 within 10 miles.

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