IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY

As a medium-sized high school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY works with 743 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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

In terms of who attends, IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY records that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 37.3%; this one delivers 58.8%, a residual of +21.5 points.

Across the wider county, Bexar County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

IDEA MONTERREY PARK ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY. On composite proficiency, IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. IDEA MONTERREY PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 56%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 743 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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