IDEA University Prep

Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, IDEA University Prep is a mid-tier elementary-level community, run under East Baton Rouge Parish. It works with 658 students across grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 45% above typical.

IDEA University Prep is one of 83 schools operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, a district that works with 40,083 students overall.

On demographics, IDEA University Prep records that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, IDEA University Prep shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate median household income runs about $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. IDEA University Prep is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

The closest other public school is Claiborne Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site. IDEA University Prep operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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