IDEA La Joya Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA La Joya Academy is the 40th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4.9 miles away and have a median of 437 students, so IDEA La Joya 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 2 with 125 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 77, against an average of 109 per grade. This year grade 5 has 47% more students than kindergarten (113 against 77). 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 98.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%).

90.5% 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 La Joya Academy has 31.96 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 656 students would have about 44.3 teachers, so IDEA La Joya Academy has 12.3 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, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Tabasco Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in La Joya ISD. There are 5 elementary schools within 5 miles and 39 within 10 miles.

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