IDEA Najim College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Najim College Preparatory is the 42nd largest, with 0.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 387 students, so IDEA Najim College Preparatory is close to their typical size.

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 113 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 32, against an average of 68 per grade. This year grade 12 has 72% fewer students than grade 6 (32 against 113). 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 67.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 27.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.7% 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 Najim College Preparatory has 32.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 474 students would have about 33.9 teachers, so IDEA Najim College Preparatory has 1.2 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 Houston High School, 0.7 miles away in San Antonio ISD. There are 15 high schools within 5 miles and 72 within 10 miles.

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