IDEA College Preparatory San Benito

Size

IDEA College Preparatory San Benito is the 11th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 780 students are 1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 231; IDEA College Preparatory San Benito 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 7 with 133 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 78, against an average of 111 per grade. This year grade 12 has 37% fewer students than grade 6 (78 against 123). 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: 96.3% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.4% 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 47.1 full-time-equivalent teachers for 780 students, IDEA College Preparatory San Benito has 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 780 students would have about 55.7 teachers, so IDEA College Preparatory San Benito has 8.6 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 Preparatory San Benito is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, midsize. The nearest other high school is Amador R Rodriguez Juvenile Boot Camp, 0.3 miles away in San Benito CISD. Within 10 miles there are 13 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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