IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY, a cozy high school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, enrolls 661 students, covering grades 6 through 12.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 8% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 76% of students at IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 40.8%; actual is 61.8%, +21.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: IDEA CARVER ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 24.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. IDEA CARVER COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 31%: 505 students in 2018 compared to 661 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 13% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.