IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY

Located at 405 WALLEBERG, in EL PASO, Texas, IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a tight-knit four-year high school that hosts 533 students (grades 6 through 11), one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 796.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 79,430 students. IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 83% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY higher than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 44.0%.

Zooming out to the county, El Paso County reports that median household income runs about $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

IDEA MESA HILLS ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA MESA HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

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

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