IDEA Yukon Academy

Size

IDEA Yukon Academy is the 7th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 736 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 5.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 493; IDEA Yukon 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 3 with 124 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 119, against an average of 123 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 122 in kindergarten and 124 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 69.4% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. White students are next, at 18.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

38.3% 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 33.42 full-time-equivalent teachers for 736 students, IDEA Yukon Academy has 22 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 736 students would have about 49.7 teachers, so IDEA Yukon Academy has 16.3 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 Yukon Academy is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is L B Johnson Elementary School, 3.5 miles away in Ector County ISD. Within 10 miles there are 29 other elementary schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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