IDEA Mesa Hills Academy

Size

IDEA Mesa Hills Academy is the 43rd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 643 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 350 students, so IDEA Mesa Hills 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 123 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 76, against an average of 107 per grade. This year grade 5 has 62% more students than kindergarten (123 against 76). 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 88.5% 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.

79.9% 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 Mesa Hills Academy has 30.19 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 643 students would have about 43.4 teachers, so IDEA Mesa Hills Academy has 13.2 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Charles Q Murphree PK-8, 0.2 miles away in El Paso ISD. There are 25 elementary schools within 5 miles and 60 within 10 miles.

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