IDEA Walzem Academy

Size

IDEA Walzem Academy is the 49th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 611 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 441; IDEA Walzem 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 2 with 114 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 86, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 5 has 25% more students than kindergarten (110 against 88). 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: 64.8% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 24.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.3% 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 29.43 full-time-equivalent teachers for 611 students, IDEA Walzem Academy has 20.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 611 students would have about 41.3 teachers, so IDEA Walzem Academy has 11.9 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Walzem 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 Mary Lou Hartman, 0.5 miles away in Judson ISD. Within 10 miles there are 105 other elementary schools, 41 of them within 5 miles.

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