IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of the average-sized four-year high schools in EDINBURG, Texas, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 795 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12.

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

On demographics, IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White. That composition is broadly in line with Hidalgo County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY higher than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.6%; IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 56.3%, +18.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

IDEA EDINBURG ACADEMY 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. On composite proficiency, IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. IDEA EDINBURG COLLEGE PREPARATORY's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 750 (now 795). Class-load math has widened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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