IDEA North Mission Academy

Size

IDEA North Mission Academy is the 13th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 719 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 418; IDEA North Mission 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 139 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 85, against an average of 120 per grade. This year grade 5 has 64% more students than kindergarten (139 against 85). 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: 96% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.5% 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 34.82 full-time-equivalent teachers for 719 students, IDEA North Mission Academy has 20.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 719 students would have about 48.6 teachers, so IDEA North Mission Academy has 13.8 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 North Mission Academy is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Ollie O'Grady Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Mission CISD. Within 10 miles there are 87 other elementary schools, 40 of them within 5 miles.

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