IDEA QUEST ACADEMY

IDEA QUEST ACADEMY is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in EDINBURG, Texas, one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, teacheing 592 students in grades K through 5.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 79,430 students. IDEA QUEST ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, IDEA QUEST ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school records 3% White. Compared to Hidalgo County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA QUEST ACADEMY 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 36.0%; this one delivers 53.1%, a residual of +17.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) logs that median household income runs about $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA QUEST ACADEMY is one.

IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, IDEA QUEST ACADEMY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

IDEA QUEST ACADEMY operates from an outlying location. IDEA QUEST ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. IDEA QUEST ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 818 (now 592). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the IDEA QUEST ACADEMY community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.