IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY

IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in EL PASO, Texas, run under IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, hosting 641 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY is one of 125 schools operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that teaches 79,430 students overall.

Looking at the student body, IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY reports that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 8% Black, 7% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for El Paso County shows median household earnings sit near $59,806, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.7%.

IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY operates from a high-density location. As a public charter, IDEA MESQUITE HILLS ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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