IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a middle school of close-knit scale in HOUSTON, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, teacheing 499 students in grades 6 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

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

Demographically, IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA LAKE HOUSTON ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. IDEA LAKE HOUSTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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