IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, a close-knit intermediate school in CONVERSE, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, serves 462 students, covering grades 6 through 10. That puts it 28% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 125 schools operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that educates 79,430 students overall.

On demographics, IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 10% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. Compared to Bexar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IDEA CONVERSE ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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