IDEA MAYS ACADEMY

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, IDEA MAYS ACADEMY is a mid-tier primary school, run under IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It enrolls 663 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 519.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA MAYS ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, IDEA MAYS ACADEMY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%; the rest looks like 12% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, IDEA MAYS ACADEMY records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA MAYS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +10.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. IDEA MAYS ACADEMY is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA MAYS ACADEMY at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 35.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, IDEA MAYS ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. IDEA MAYS ACADEMY's enrollment has grew 37% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 663). Class-load math has widened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the IDEA MAYS ACADEMY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.