IDEA Riverview Academy

Size

IDEA Riverview Academy is the 18th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 714 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 425; IDEA Riverview 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 1 with 131 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 88, against an average of 119 per grade. This year grade 5 has 39% more students than kindergarten (122 against 88). 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.

94.3% 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 32.53 full-time-equivalent teachers for 714 students, IDEA Riverview Academy has 21.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 714 students would have about 48.2 teachers, so IDEA Riverview Academy has 15.7 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 Riverview Academy 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 elementary school is Skinner Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in Brownsville ISD. Within 10 miles there are 43 other elementary schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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