IDEA College Preparatory San Juan

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA College Preparatory San Juan is the 18th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 621 students, so IDEA College Preparatory San Juan is close to their typical size.

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 136 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 85, against an average of 106 per grade. This year grade 12 has 37% fewer students than grade 6 (86 against 136). 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 97.7% 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.

89.2% 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 San Juan has 48.75 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 741 students would have about 52.9 teachers, so IDEA College Preparatory San Juan has 4.1 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 Premier H S of San Juan, 2 miles away in Premier High Schools. There are 18 high schools within 5 miles and 42 within 10 miles.

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