IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a tight-knit junior high in EL PASO, Texas, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school hosts 352 students in grades 6 through 9. That puts it 45% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is among them.

In terms of who attends, IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 9% White, 7% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (El Paso County) reports that median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).

IDEA MESQUITE 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 MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, IDEA MESQUITE HILLS COLLEGE PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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