IDEA South Flores College Preparatory

Size

IDEA South Flores College Preparatory is the 23rd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 715 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 179 students, so IDEA South Flores 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 7 with 132 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 65, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 12 has 47% fewer students than grade 6 (65 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 91.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

73% 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 South Flores College Preparatory has 47.46 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 715 students would have about 51.1 teachers, so IDEA South Flores College Preparatory has 3.6 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Harlandale ISD STEM Echs-Alamo Colleges at Pac, 0.7 miles away in Harlandale ISD. There are 25 high schools within 5 miles and 62 within 10 miles.

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