IDEA Walzem College Preparatory

Size

IDEA Walzem College Preparatory is the 22nd largest of IDEA Public Schools' 47 high schools; its 724 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3 miles away and have a median of 377 students, so IDEA Walzem 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 120 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 84, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 12 has 19% fewer students than grade 6 (89 against 110). 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 68.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 22.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.1% 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 Walzem College Preparatory has 43.06 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 724 students would have about 51.7 teachers, so IDEA Walzem College Preparatory has 8.6 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Roosevelt High School, 1.8 miles away in North East ISD. There are 15 high schools within 5 miles and 48 within 10 miles.

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