IDEA McAllen Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA McAllen Academy is the 6th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 502; IDEA McAllen 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 5 with 135 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 86, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 5 has 57% more students than kindergarten (135 against 86). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 94% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.3% of its students are eligible 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

With 34.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 738 students, IDEA McAllen Academy has 21.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 738 students would have about 49.9 teachers, so IDEA McAllen Academy has 15.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

IDEA McAllen Academy is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Romulo D Martinez Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Sharyland ISD. Within 10 miles there are 120 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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