IDEA Converse Academy

This page covers IDEA Converse Academy, a medium-sized elementary school in CONVERSE, Texas. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 743 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Texas is roughly 519 students; this school is 43% larger than that.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS enrolls 79,430 students in 125 schools, including IDEA Converse Academy.

Hispanic students are the majority at IDEA Converse Academy, with 61% of enrollment. It is also 24% Black, 10% White, and 3% multiracial. That is close to the 60% Hispanic share among all Bexar County residents. IDEA Converse Academy's diversity index is 56%, against a US figure of 70%.

The school reports 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 23.8 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 62%. For comparison, public schools in Bexar County average 63%.

A school with IDEA Converse Academy's lunch-eligibility share in Texas is predicted to score 47.3%. IDEA Converse Academy scores 37.8%, 9.4 points below that line.

According to the American Community Survey, in Bexar County, the median household income is $72,341, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. There are 638 public schools in Bexar County, enrolling about 368,487 students in all.

The next-closest public school is IDEA Converse College Preparatory, less than a tenth of a mile away. IDEA Converse Academy is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. IDEA Converse Academy ranks 2nd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 37.8% against a local average of 31.5%.

IDEA Converse Academy falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. As a charter school, IDEA Converse Academy is publicly funded and operates under a charter.

IDEA Converse Academy reported 377 students in 2020-21 and 743 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. The ratio of students to teachers went from 31.4:1 to 23.8:1 over the same years.

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