IDEA Edgemere Academy

Size

IDEA Edgemere Academy is the largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 788 students are 1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 820 students, so IDEA Edgemere 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 156 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 86, against an average of 131 per grade. This year grade 5 has 81% more students than kindergarten (156 against 86). 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 84.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.8% of students qualify 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

IDEA Edgemere Academy has 38.77 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 788 students would have about 53.2 teachers, so IDEA Edgemere Academy has 14.4 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Cactus Trails, 0.9 miles away in Socorro ISD. There are 11 elementary schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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