IDEA Eastside College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Eastside College Preparatory is the 43rd largest, with 0.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 192 students, so IDEA Eastside College Preparatory 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 8 with 89 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 37, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 12 has 51% fewer students than grade 6 (37 against 75). 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 80% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 16.8%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.7% 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 Eastside College Preparatory has 35.36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 469 students would have about 33.5 teachers, so IDEA Eastside College Preparatory has 1.9 more.

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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is St Philip's College Early College High School, 0.6 miles away in San Antonio ISD. There are 29 high schools within 5 miles and 74 within 10 miles.

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