IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY

Set in LA JOYA, Texas, IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY is an average-sized elementary school, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It educates 656 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 519.

Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%).

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.3%; this one delivers 31.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household income runs about $54,338, 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 LA JOYA ACADEMY is one.

IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. As a public charter, IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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