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IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY
IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY, a mid-tier elementary school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, instructs 699 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% larger than the state mean of about 519.
Within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 125 schools and 79,430 students, IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.
Demographically, IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY logs that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 5% White.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 41.7%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Cameron County) shows that median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).
IDEA ROBINDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY 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 ROBINDALE ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.9%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting. IDEA ROBINDALE ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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