IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR

As an average-sized secondary school in PHARR, Texas, IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR caters to 848 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

Looking at the student body, IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR reports that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.8%; actual is 51.9%, +19.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

The closest other public school is IDEA ACADEMY PHARR, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR operates from an urban location. As a public charter, IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR has edged up 11%, going from 764 students in 2018 to 848 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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