IDEA Harlingen College Preparatory

Size

Of the 16 middle schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Harlingen College Preparatory is the 9th largest, with 0.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.6 miles away and have a median of 700 students, so IDEA Harlingen 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 6 with 117 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 82, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 10 has 26% fewer students than grade 6 (86 against 117). 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% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 College Preparatory has 34.87 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 457 students would have about 31.7 teachers, so IDEA Harlingen College Preparatory has 3.2 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

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 middle school is Gutierrez Middle School, 0.2 miles away in Harlingen CISD. There are 5 middle schools within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

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