IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY
As a cozy 9-12 campus in HALTOM CITY, Texas, IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY serves 466 students from grades 6 through 11, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 22% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.9%; IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 51.5%, +15.5 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) records that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.
IDEA ACHIEVE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the IDEA ACHIEVE COLLEGE PREPARATORY community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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