IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO

Set in WESLACO, Texas, IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO is a middle-of-the-pack high school, run under IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It serves 728 students across grades 6 through 12.

IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO is one of 125 schools operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that caters to 79,430 students overall.

In terms of who attends, IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%); the rest comes out to 3% White.

Looking at school resources, IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO higher than the state norm the norm. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.9%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO is one campus in the mix.

IDEA ACADEMY WESLACO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.2%.

IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO operates from a countryside location. As a public charter, IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IDEA COLLEGE PREP WESLACO has contracted 7%, going from 783 students in 2018 to 728 in 2025.

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