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If you had an hour of school board time for IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY ALAMO, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
737
High
DISTRICT 676 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 480021112306
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo
325 KANSAS RD, ALAMO, TX 78516 · (956) 588-4006 · Hidalgo County
GRADES 06–12HIGH21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL737 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Texas public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
706 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 12 | 63 | 9% |
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
49.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +13.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
33.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +10.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 18.0% | 31.0% | 26.0% | 25.0% |
| Mathematics | 8.0% | 25.0% | 37.0% | 30.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 49.0% | 33.0% |
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 38.0% |
| 2022-23 | 51.0% | 37.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.0% | 35.0% |
| 2020-21 | 36.0% | 23.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like IDEA College Preparatory Alamo
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo's state test result (45.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDEA College Preparatory Alamo this school | 737 | 95.8% | 45.3% |
| IDEA College Prep DONNA | 823 | 95.3% | 40.9% |
| IDEA Riverview College Preparatory BROWNSVILLE | 813 | 94.3% | 64.0% |
| Grulla High School RIO GRANDE CITY | 716 | 96.8% | 44.7% |
| IDEA Rundberg College Preparatory AUSTIN | 790 | 94.3% | 59.4% |
| IDEA Los Encinos College Preparatory MCALLEN | 753 | 93.2% | 60.0% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where IDEA College Preparatory Alamo ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #988 of 1,385 | #36 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #1,008 of 1,425 ▼ 91 | #44 of 56 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #987 of 1,425 ▼ 69 | #34 of 56 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #75 of 1,184 | #7 of 56 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 737 | #727 of 2,107 | #38 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,010 of 1,344 | #50 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.8% | #1,245 of 1,346 | #16 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.8% | #58 of 1,522 | #10 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #466 of 557 | #28 of 31 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
737
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
+220% since 2010-11, when it was 230
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 19.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 737 | 44.5 | 16.6:1 | 96% (706) |
| 2023-24 | 763 | 46.1 | 16.6:1 | 94% (714) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 44.8 | 16.4:1 | 92% (675) |
| 2020-21 | 753 | 39 | 19.3:1 | 95% (718) |
| 2017-18 | 760 | 45 | 16.9:1 | 95% (719) |
| 2015-16 | 668 | 34 | 19.6:1 | 97% (648) |
| 2010-11 | 230 | 12 | 19.2:1 | 86% (197) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for IDEA College Preparatory Alamo.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (760 to 737); teachers down 1% (45 to 44.5).
About IDEA College Preparatory Alamo
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is a high school in ALAMO, Texas, reachable at (956) 588-4006. The school enrolls 737 students in grades 6 through 12.
IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS has 79,430 students spread across 125 schools.
A large majority of enrollment at IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is Hispanic, at 96%. Other reported shares: 3% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, IDEA College Preparatory Alamo scores 7%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.6:1. The school has 44.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for high schools in Texas is 15.1:1. In all, 96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 85% average for public schools in Hidalgo County.
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 38% of Texas public high schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is 12.5 points above its prediction. Actual: 45.3%. Predicted: 32.8%.
For Hidalgo County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $54,338 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Hidalgo County number 364, with about 212,859 students.
Of the public schools around it, IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is closest to IDEA Academy Alamo, less than a tenth of a mile away. IDEA College Preparatory Alamo has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 41.5% on proficiency, and IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is above that at 45.3%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is run as a public charter school.
Enrollment went from 753 in 2020-21 to 737 in 2024-25, a change of 16 students. The school's ratio dropped from 19.3:1 to 16.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- IDEA College Preparatory PharrHigh · 848 students
- IDEA Montopolis College PreparatoryHigh · 835 students
- IDEA College PrepHigh · 823 students
- IDEA McAllen College PreparatoryHigh · 820 students
- IDEA Riverview College PreparatoryHigh · 813 students
- IDEA College Preparatory MissionHigh · 798 students
Other schools in ALAMO
- Psja Memorial Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Vanguard MozartCombined · 1,236 students
- Audie Murphy Middle SchoolMiddle · 790 students
- Augusto Guerra Elementary SchoolElementary · 731 students
- John McKeever Elementary SchoolElementary · 699 students
- IDEA Academy AlamoElementary · 698 students
Nearby schools
- IDEA Academy Alamo0.0 mi · 698
- Augusto Guerra Elementary School0.8 mi · 731
- Audie Murphy Middle School1.1 mi · 790
- Santos Livas Elementary School1.3 mi · 515
- Capt D Salinas II Elementary School1.4 mi · 457
- Vanguard Mozart1.6 mi · 1,236
Frequently asked questions
About IDEA College Preparatory AlamoWhat is the total enrollment at IDEA College Preparatory Alamo?
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo enrolls approximately 737 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does IDEA College Preparatory Alamo serve?
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo serves grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at IDEA College Preparatory Alamo?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at IDEA College Preparatory Alamo.
How diverse is IDEA College Preparatory Alamo?
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo reports a student body of 3% White, 96% Hispanic, 0% Asian.
Who oversees IDEA College Preparatory Alamo?
IDEA College Preparatory Alamo is overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Hidalgo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.