IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY

IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in CONVERSE, Texas, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 743 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 43% above typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Bexar County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -10.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 31.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. As a public charter, IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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