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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY administration to hear?
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Enrollment
685
High
DISTRICT 676 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 480021113673
IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY
5200 TRES LAGOS BLVD, MCALLEN, TX 78504 · (956) 287-6900 · Hidalgo County
GRADES 06–12HIGH12-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL685 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
552 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
60.0%
TX avg 51.8% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
44.0%
TX avg 42.0% . +20.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
685
+562 (+457%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 15.6:1
% White
6%
was 3%
% Hispanic
92%
was 94%
% Black
1%
was 1%
% Asian
1%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY
Located at 5200 TRES LAGOS BLVD, in MCALLEN, Texas, IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a moderately sized senior high that educates 685 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 79,430 students. IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one of those campuses.
Demographically, IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Other groups include 6% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY 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 38.7%; this one delivers 57.0%, a residual of +18.3 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put median household income runs about $54,338, 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 TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one.
Nearest neighbor: IDEA TRES LAGOS ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.
The school occupies a city-core site. IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY's enrollment has ticked up 457% since 2018, when it stood at 123 (now 685).
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY PHARRHigh · 848 students
- IDEA MONTOPOLIS COLLEGE PREPARATORYHigh · 835 students
- IDEA COLLEGE PREPHigh · 823 students
- IDEA MCALLEN COLLEGE PREPARATORYHigh · 820 students
- IDEA RIVERVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORYHigh · 813 students
- IDEA COLLEGE PREPARATORY MISSIONHigh · 798 students
Other schools in MCALLEN
- MCALLEN H SHigh · 2,134 students
- MEMORIAL H SHigh · 2,021 students
- MORRIS MIDDLEMiddle · 999 students
- CATHEY MIDDLEMiddle · 827 students
- IDEA MCALLEN COLLEGE PREPARATORYHigh · 820 students
- GONZALEZ ELElementary · 818 students
Nearby schools
- IDEA TRES LAGOS ACADEMY0.0 mi · 695
- ANNE L MAGEE EL0.9 mi · 460
- ELIAS LONGORIA SR MIDDLE1.7 mi · 770
- IDEA QUEST ACADEMY1.7 mi · 592
- IDEA QUEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY1.7 mi · 667
- R C FLORES-MARK A ZAPATA EL2.0 mi · 625
Frequently asked questions
About IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORYHow large is IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY?
IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY enrolls approximately 685 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY serve?
IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY serves grades 06-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is approximately 16.4:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY?
At IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, the student body is approximately 6% White, 92% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian.
Is IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY public or private?
IDEA TRES LAGOS COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.