IDEA South Flores Academy

Size

IDEA South Flores Academy is the 35th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 680 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 588; IDEA South Flores Academy 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 2 with 128 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 94, against an average of 113 per grade. This year grade 5 has 18% more students than kindergarten (116 against 98). 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: 91.2% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71.8% 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 28.28 full-time-equivalent teachers for 680 students, IDEA South Flores Academy has 24 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 680 students would have about 45.9 teachers, so IDEA South Flores Academy has 17.6 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 South Flores Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bellaire Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in Harlandale ISD. Within 10 miles there are 124 other elementary schools, 44 of them within 5 miles.

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