IDEA Riverview College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Riverview College Preparatory is the 5th largest, with 1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 229 students, so IDEA Riverview 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 142 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 89, against an average of 116 per grade. This year grade 12 has 29% fewer students than grade 6 (89 against 125). 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 98.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%).

94.3% of students qualify 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

IDEA Riverview College Preparatory has 45.92 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 813 students would have about 58.1 teachers, so IDEA Riverview College Preparatory has 12.2 fewer.

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

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 high school is Brownsville Early College High School, 1.6 miles away in Brownsville ISD. There are 8 high schools within 5 miles and 16 within 10 miles.

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