IDEA McAllen College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA McAllen College Preparatory is the 4th largest, with 1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 455; IDEA McAllen 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 8 with 136 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 76, against an average of 117 per grade. This year grade 12 has 42% fewer students than grade 6 (76 against 131). 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: 95.2% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

74.8% of its students are eligible 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

With 48.53 full-time-equivalent teachers for 820 students, IDEA McAllen College Preparatory has 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 820 students would have about 58.6 teachers, so IDEA McAllen College Preparatory has 10.1 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA McAllen College Preparatory is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Sharyland Advanced Academic Academy, 0.7 miles away in Sharyland ISD. Within 10 miles there are 41 other high schools, 15 of them within 5 miles.

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