IDEA Spears Academy

Size

IDEA Spears Academy is the 11th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 728 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 660; IDEA Spears 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 3 with 130 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 99, against an average of 121 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (126 against 99). 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: 59.1% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 37%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.2% 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 31.01 full-time-equivalent teachers for 728 students, IDEA Spears Academy has 23.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 728 students would have about 49.2 teachers, so IDEA Spears Academy has 18.2 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 Spears Academy is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Heritage Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Spring ISD. Within 10 miles there are 153 other elementary schools, 42 of them within 5 miles.

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