IDEA Horizon Vista College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Horizon Vista College Preparatory is the 11th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 16 middle schools; its 402 students are 0.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4 miles away and have a median of 631 students, so IDEA Horizon Vista 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 109 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 54, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 10 has 39% fewer students than grade 6 (66 against 109). 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 90.5% 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.

81.3% 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 Horizon Vista College Preparatory has 31.83 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 402 students would have about 27.9 teachers, so IDEA Horizon Vista College Preparatory has 3.9 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 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 middle school is Horizon Middle School, 1.3 miles away in Clint ISD. There are 5 middle schools within 5 miles and 21 within 10 miles.

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