IDEA College Preparatory Alamo

Size

IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is the 19th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 737 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 1,399 students, so IDEA College Preparatory Alamo 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 132 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 63, against an average of 105 per grade. This year grade 12 has 52% fewer students than grade 6 (63 against 132). 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 96.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.8% of students qualify 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

IDEA College Preparatory Alamo has 44.46 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 737 students would have about 52.6 teachers, so IDEA College Preparatory Alamo has 8.1 fewer.

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

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 high school is Psja Memorial Early College High School, 2.2 miles away in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. There are 13 high schools within 5 miles and 43 within 10 miles.

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