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What do students at IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
848
High
DISTRICT 676 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 480021112390
IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR
600 E LAS MILPAS RD, PHARR, TX 78577 · (956) 283-1515 · Hidalgo County
GRADES 06–12HIGH13-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL848 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
797 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
58.0%
TX avg 51.8% . +15.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
40.0%
TX avg 42.0% . +19.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 19 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
848
+84 (+11%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 17.1:1
% White
0%
was 1%
% Hispanic
100%
was 98%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 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
- IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORYHigh · 795 students
Other schools in PHARR
- PSJA NORTH EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 2,166 students
- VANGUARD REMBRANDTCombined · 1,978 students
- PSJA SOUTHWEST EARLY COLLEGE H SHigh · 1,588 students
- VANGUARD VAN GOGHCombined · 1,048 students
- LYNDON B JOHNSON MIDDLEMiddle · 1,006 students
- DR WILLIAM LONG ELElementary · 767 students
Nearby schools
- IDEA ACADEMY PHARR0.0 mi · 717
- JC KELLY EL0.3 mi · 260
- HIDALGO PARK EL0.6 mi · 239
- CESAR CHAVEZ EL1.2 mi · 403
- BERTA S PALACIOS EL1.2 mi · 470
- CARMEN ANAYA EL1.3 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARRHow large is IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR?
IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR enrolls approximately 848 students in grades 06-12.
Is IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR an elementary, middle, or high school?
IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR?
Approximately 19.0:1 students per teacher at IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR.
What is the racial breakdown of students at IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR?
At IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR, the student body is approximately 0% White, 100% Hispanic, 0% Black.
Is IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR public or private?
IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARR is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.