IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of the mid-sized 6-8 campuss in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 635 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 10.

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

On the student-mix side, IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 15% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA HARDY 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 HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.7%.

IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates from a city-core location. IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, members of the IDEA HARDY COLLEGE PREPARATORY community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.