IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY

Set in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY is an average-sized high school, one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It caters to 781 students across grades 6 through 12.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY is among them.

On demographics, IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 3% White. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA FRONTIER 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 35.3%; IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 56.1%, +20.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Cameron County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA FRONTIER ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 777 students in 2018 compared to 781 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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