IDEA Montopolis College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Montopolis College Preparatory is the 2nd largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 333 students, so IDEA Montopolis 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 143 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 87, against an average of 119 per grade. This year grade 12 has 39% fewer students than grade 6 (87 against 143). 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 90.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.3% 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 Montopolis College Preparatory has 42.72 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 835 students would have about 59.6 teachers, so IDEA Montopolis College Preparatory has 16.9 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 Alternative Learning Center, 2.1 miles away in Austin ISD. There are 16 high schools within 5 miles and 41 within 10 miles.

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