IDEA Pflugerville Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Pflugerville Academy is the 37th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 506 students, so IDEA Pflugerville 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 4 with 124 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 91, against an average of 111 per grade. This year grade 5 has 29% more students than kindergarten (117 against 91). 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 68.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 16.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.2% of students qualify 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

IDEA Pflugerville Academy has 33.03 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 665 students would have about 44.9 teachers, so IDEA Pflugerville Academy has 11.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Pflugerville Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Pflugerville ISD. There are 32 elementary schools within 5 miles and 105 within 10 miles.

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