IDEA Rio Grande City Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Rio Grande City Academy is the 17th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.8 miles away and have a median of 470 students, so IDEA Rio Grande City 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 2 with 132 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 99, against an average of 120 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% more students than kindergarten (129 against 101). 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 96.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%).

85.2% 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 Rio Grande City Academy has 33.84 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 717 students would have about 48.4 teachers, so IDEA Rio Grande City Academy has 14.6 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is General Ricardo Sanchez Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Rio Grande City Grulla ISD. There are 6 elementary schools within 5 miles and 11 within 10 miles.

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