IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY

Located at 5555 OLD PEARSALL RD, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a compact secondary school that instructs 671 students (grades 6 through 12), part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Across the 125 schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (79,430 students total), IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). The remainder is composed of 6% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.5%; this one delivers 42.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household income runs about $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

The closest other public school is IDEA BRACKENRIDGE ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY. On composite proficiency, IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY's enrollment has increased 469% since 2018, when it stood at 118 (now 671). Class-load math has fell: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.