IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY

Set in PHARR, Texas, IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY is a medium-sized primary school, one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 699 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY is among them.

Demographically, IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% White. Compared to Hidalgo County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) reports that median household income runs about $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA OWASSA COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. IDEA OWASSA ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.