IDEA Mays College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Mays College Preparatory is the 15th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 748 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 1,369 students, so IDEA Mays 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 132 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 84, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 12 has 31% fewer students than grade 6 (91 against 132). 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 81.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70.2% 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 Mays College Preparatory has 43.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 748 students would have about 53.4 teachers, so IDEA Mays College Preparatory has 10.2 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Jay High School, 0.8 miles away in Northside ISD. There are 14 high schools within 5 miles and 59 within 10 miles.

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