IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY

Set in AUSTIN, Texas, IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY is a modestly sized primary school, run under IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It works with 294 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 43% smaller than typical.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, On paper, IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -10.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Travis County put median household earnings sit near $99,611, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, 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 HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. As a public charter, IDEA HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.