IDEA Edgemere College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Edgemere College Preparatory is the 36th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 5.1 miles away and have a median of 2,079 students, so IDEA Edgemere College Preparatory is smaller 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 7 with 138 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 57, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 12 has 41% fewer students than grade 6 (70 against 118). 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 81.6% 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.

59.1% 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 Edgemere College Preparatory has 42.21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 619 students would have about 44.2 teachers, so IDEA Edgemere College Preparatory has 2 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 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 high school is Pebble Hills High School, 1.9 miles away in Socorro ISD. There are 4 high schools within 5 miles and 20 within 10 miles.

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