IDEA Los Encinos Academy

Size

IDEA Los Encinos Academy is the 2nd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 770 students are 1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 475 students, so IDEA Los Encinos 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 4 with 141 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 113, against an average of 128 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (135 against 113). 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 94.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%).

87% 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 Los Encinos Academy has 31.58 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 24.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 770 students would have about 52 teachers, so IDEA Los Encinos Academy has 20.4 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Houston Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in McAllen ISD. There are 25 elementary schools within 5 miles and 99 within 10 miles.

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