IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory is the 24th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 11.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 451; IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory 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 8 with 139 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 55, against an average of 99 per grade. This year grade 12 has 59% fewer students than grade 6 (55 against 135). 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: 96.1% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 44.74 full-time-equivalent teachers for 695 students, IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory has 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 695 students would have about 49.6 teachers, so IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory has 4.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other high school is Preparatory for Early College High School, 1 miles away in Rio Grande City Grulla ISD. Within 10 miles there are 3 other high schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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