IDEA Eastside Academy

Size

IDEA Eastside Academy is the 61st largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 392 students are 0.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 435; IDEA Eastside Academy 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 5 with 83 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 48, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 5 has 73% more students than kindergarten (83 against 48). 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: 79.1% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 17.9%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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 16.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 392 students, IDEA Eastside Academy has 23.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 392 students would have about 26.5 teachers, so IDEA Eastside Academy has 9.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

IDEA Eastside Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Smith Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 153 other elementary schools, 47 of them within 5 miles.

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