IDEA Owassa Academy

Size

IDEA Owassa Academy is the 25th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 699 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 602; IDEA Owassa Academy 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 4 with 130 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 82, against an average of 117 per grade. This year grade 5 has 57% more students than kindergarten (129 against 82). 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: 91.1% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82% 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 33.2 full-time-equivalent teachers for 699 students, IDEA Owassa Academy has 21.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 699 students would have about 47.2 teachers, so IDEA Owassa Academy has 14 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 Owassa Academy is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Escandon Elementary School, 1 miles away in Edinburg CISD. Within 10 miles there are 112 other elementary schools, 47 of them within 5 miles.

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