IDEA Round Rock Technical College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Round Rock Technical College Preparatory is the 4th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 16 middle schools; its 504 students are 0.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3 miles away with a median enrollment of 700; IDEA Round Rock Technical College Preparatory is smaller 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 6 with 122 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 77, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 10 has 33% fewer students than grade 6 (82 against 122). 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: 58.3% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 22.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

60.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 33.56 full-time-equivalent teachers for 504 students, IDEA Round Rock Technical College Preparatory has 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 504 students would have about 35 teachers, so IDEA Round Rock Technical College Preparatory has 1.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

IDEA Round Rock Technical College Preparatory is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other middle school is C D Fulkes Middle School, 2.5 miles away in Round Rock ISD. Within 10 miles there are 28 other middle schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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