IDEA College Prep

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA College Prep is the 3rd largest, with 1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,356; IDEA College Prep 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 6 with 145 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 80, against an average of 118 per grade. This year grade 12 has 45% fewer students than grade 6 (80 against 145). 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: 96.8% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.3% 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 53 full-time-equivalent teachers for 823 students, IDEA College Prep has 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 823 students would have about 58.8 teachers, so IDEA College Prep has 5.8 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA College Prep 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 Donna High School, 1.8 miles away in Donna ISD. Within 10 miles there are 38 other high schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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