IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a junior high of tight-knit scale in LA JOYA, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, caters to 344 students in grades 6 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 47% below the state mean of about 643.

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

On demographics, IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of +12.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household income runs about $54,338, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA LA JOYA ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.8%.

IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates from a commuter-belt location. IDEA LA JOYA COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.