IDEA Owassa College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Owassa College Preparatory is the 27th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 604 students, so IDEA Owassa 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 138 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 75, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 12 has 45% fewer students than grade 6 (76 against 138). 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 95.2% 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.

84.3% 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 Owassa College Preparatory has 44.51 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 689 students would have about 49.2 teachers, so IDEA Owassa College Preparatory has 4.7 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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other high school is Psja North Early College High School, 1.2 miles away in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. There are 20 high schools within 5 miles and 42 within 10 miles.

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