IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a small high school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 620 students spanning grades 6 through 11. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%; the rest is composed of 13% Black, 10% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

IDEA BURKE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates from a bedroom-community location. IDEA BURKE COLLEGE PREPARATORY 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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