IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY

As an average-sized 9-12 campus in MCALLEN, Texas, IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY educates 753 students from grades 6 through 11, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.2%; actual is 64.5%, +31.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 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 LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

The closest other public school is IDEA LOS ENCINOS ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On the community side, members of the IDEA LOS ENCINOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.