IDEA Hidden Meadow College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Hidden Meadow College Preparatory is the 14th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 16 middle schools; its 336 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 897; IDEA Hidden Meadow 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 8 with 77 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 53, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 10 has 25% more students than grade 6 (66 against 53). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 79.2% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

69.3% of its students are eligible 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

With 21.58 full-time-equivalent teachers for 336 students, IDEA Hidden Meadow College Preparatory has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 336 students would have about 23.3 teachers, so IDEA Hidden Meadow College Preparatory has 1.7 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Hidden Meadow College Preparatory is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Zachry Middle School, 0.4 miles away in Northside ISD. Within 10 miles there are 34 other middle schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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