IDEA Ewing Halsell College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Ewing Halsell College Preparatory is the 37th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 162 students, so IDEA Ewing Halsell 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 7 with 134 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 51, against an average of 87 per grade. This year grade 12 has 49% fewer students than grade 6 (66 against 130). 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 93.3% 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.

74% 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 Ewing Halsell College Preparatory has 35.14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 611 students would have about 43.6 teachers, so IDEA Ewing Halsell College Preparatory has 8.5 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Alternative School, 0.5 miles away in South San Antonio ISD. There are 22 high schools within 5 miles and 65 within 10 miles.

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