IDEA COLLEGE PREP

IDEA COLLEGE PREP, a mid-tier four-year high school in DONNA, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, hosts 823 students, covering grades 6 through 12.

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

Demographically, IDEA COLLEGE PREP records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The remainder looks like 3% White.

On the income-and-resources front, IDEA COLLEGE PREP logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA COLLEGE PREP performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of +9.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA COLLEGE PREP is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IDEA COLLEGE PREP comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. As a public charter, IDEA COLLEGE PREP runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. IDEA COLLEGE PREP's enrollment has grew 9% since 2018, when it stood at 757 (now 823). Class-load math has widened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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