IDEA Los Encinos College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Los Encinos College Preparatory is the 14th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.6 miles away and have a median of 303 students, so IDEA Los Encinos College Preparatory 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 6 with 130 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 118, against an average of 126 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 130 in grade 6 and 118 in grade 11.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%).

93.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 College Preparatory has 42.63 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 753 students would have about 53.8 teachers, so IDEA Los Encinos College Preparatory has 11.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

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 high school is Instr/Guid Center, 2.9 miles away in McAllen ISD. There are 13 high schools within 5 miles and 35 within 10 miles.

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