IDEA Elsa College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Elsa College Preparatory is the 20th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 6.4 miles away and have a median of 492 students, so IDEA Elsa 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 6 with 138 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 80, against an average of 105 per grade. This year grade 12 has 33% fewer students than grade 6 (92 against 138). 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 96.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.6% 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 Elsa College Preparatory has 45.98 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 737 students would have about 52.6 teachers, so IDEA Elsa College Preparatory has 6.6 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 Edcouch-Elsa H S Academy, 0.8 miles away in Edcouch-Elsa ISD. There are 3 high schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

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