IDEA Robindale College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Robindale College Preparatory is the 25th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 693 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 641; IDEA Robindale College Preparatory is close to their typical size.

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 6 with 139 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 91, against an average of 116 per grade. This year grade 11 has 35% fewer students than grade 6 (91 against 139). 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: 94.4% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.8% 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 43.26 full-time-equivalent teachers for 693 students, IDEA Robindale College Preparatory has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 693 students would have about 49.5 teachers, so IDEA Robindale College Preparatory has 6.2 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Robindale College Preparatory is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Harmony School of Innovation - Brownsville, 1.3 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - South Texas. Within 10 miles there are 18 other high schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

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