IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY

Located at 3000 S CHERRY LN, in FORT WORTH, Texas, IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a compact high school that educates 598 students (grades 6 through 11), run under IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 796.

Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA RISE 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 36.0%; IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY posts 56.8%, +20.8 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA RISE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site. IDEA RISE COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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