IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY

As a medium-sized primary school in HOUSTON, Texas, IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY serves 728 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY sits 40% above that benchmark.

Across the 125 schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (79,430 students total), IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest reads as 37% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.5%; this one delivers 23.5%.

Around the school, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA SPEARS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site. IDEA SPEARS ACADEMY 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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