IDEA BURKE ACADEMY

Located at 10434 MARBACH RD, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, IDEA BURKE ACADEMY is a medium-sized elementary campus that works with 730 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 41% above the state mean of about 519.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 79,430 students. IDEA BURKE ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IDEA BURKE ACADEMY shows that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 13% Black, 10% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, IDEA BURKE ACADEMY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at IDEA BURKE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA BURKE ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 50.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which IDEA BURKE ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA BURKE ACADEMY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. IDEA BURKE ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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