IDEA CARVER ACADEMY

As a mid-tier primary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, IDEA CARVER ACADEMY caters to 468 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

Demographically, IDEA CARVER ACADEMY reports that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Black, 5% 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 CARVER ACADEMY reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA CARVER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), IDEA CARVER ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY 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 CARVER ACADEMY comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. IDEA CARVER ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. IDEA CARVER ACADEMY's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 609 (now 468). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 78% to 88%.

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