IDEA College Prep Weslaco

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA College Prep Weslaco is the 21st largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 162; IDEA College Prep Weslaco 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 82, against an average of 104 per grade. This year grade 12 has 36% fewer students than grade 6 (82 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: 96.6% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.6% 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 45.26 full-time-equivalent teachers for 728 students, IDEA College Prep Weslaco has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 728 students would have about 52 teachers, so IDEA College Prep Weslaco has 6.7 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA College Prep Weslaco is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other high school is Premier H S of Weslaco, 0.9 miles away in Premier High Schools. Within 10 miles there are 27 other high schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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