IDEA Rise Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Rise Academy is the 34th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 449; IDEA Rise 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 132 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 76, against an average of 114 per grade. This year grade 5 has 64% more students than kindergarten (125 against 76). 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: 47.4% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 37%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.5% 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 30.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 681 students, IDEA Rise Academy has 22 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 681 students would have about 46 teachers, so IDEA Rise Academy has 15 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 Rise Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Western Hills Primary School, 0.5 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. Within 10 miles there are 104 other elementary schools, 26 of them within 5 miles.

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