IDEA Harlingen Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Harlingen Academy is the 41st largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 375 students, so IDEA Harlingen Academy 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 3 with 137 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 71, against an average of 109 per grade. This year grade 5 has 58% more students than kindergarten (112 against 71). 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 91.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.8% 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 Harlingen Academy has 30.93 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 651 students would have about 44 teachers, so IDEA Harlingen Academy has 13.1 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 suburb, midsize, which means it is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Jubilee Harlingen, 1.3 miles away in Jubilee Academies. There are 19 elementary schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

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