IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of the compact senior highs in EL PASO, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 619 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 22% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

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

Demographically, IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +5.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA EDGEMERE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. As a public charter, IDEA EDGEMERE COLLEGE PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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