IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY

Set in EDINBURG, Texas, IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY is a mid-tier primary school, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 728 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 40% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 125 schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (79,430 students total), IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White. That composition is broadly in line with Hidalgo County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Across the wider county, Hidalgo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY is one.

IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY has shrank 20%, going from 915 students in 2018 to 728 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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