IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, a close-knit secondary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, works with 543 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 796.

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

Demographically, IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY higher than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: IDEA INGRAM HILLS ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site. IDEA INGRAM HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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