IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY

IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as an intimate four-year high school in EDINBURG, Texas, part of IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 667 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of 125 schools operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that teaches 79,430 students overall.

In terms of who attends, IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 3% White. Compared to Hidalgo County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.9%; IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 72.4%, +33.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.

IDEA QUEST 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area. As a public charter, IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 667).

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