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IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY
IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a middle-of-the-pack high school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 748 students spanning grades 6 through 12.
Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.2%; IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 60.0%, +16.8 points above that line.
Around the school, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.
The closest other public school is IDEA MAYS ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IDEA MAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY has rose 214%, going from 238 students in 2018 to 748 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.
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