IDEA Edgecliff College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Edgecliff College Preparatory is the 3rd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 16 middle schools; its 604 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3 miles away and have a median of 571 students, so IDEA Edgecliff College Preparatory 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 141 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 95, against an average of 121 per grade. This year grade 10 has 27% fewer students than grade 6 (103 against 141). 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 59.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 26.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 Edgecliff College Preparatory has 38.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 604 students would have about 41.9 teachers, so IDEA Edgecliff College Preparatory has 3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

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 middle school is Wedgwood Middle School, 2.2 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. There are 16 middle schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

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