IDEA Rundberg Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Rundberg Academy is the 32nd largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 479 students, so IDEA Rundberg 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 3 with 124 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 103, against an average of 116 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (122 against 103). 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 92.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.8% of students qualify 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

IDEA Rundberg Academy has 31.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 22.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 694 students would have about 46.9 teachers, so IDEA Rundberg Academy has 15.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Guerrero Thompson, 0.3 miles away in Austin ISD. There are 49 elementary schools within 5 miles and 126 within 10 miles.

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