IDEA YUKON ACADEMY

Located at 7300 E YUKON RD, in ODESSA, Texas, IDEA YUKON ACADEMY is a medium-sized K-5 school that teaches 736 students (grades K through 5), operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so IDEA YUKON ACADEMY sits 42% above that benchmark.

IDEA YUKON ACADEMY is one of 125 schools operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that serves 79,430 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, IDEA YUKON ACADEMY records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 19% White, 10% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IDEA YUKON ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ector County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, IDEA YUKON ACADEMY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.1%; actual is 36.2%, a gap of -20.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Ector County put the typical household earns roughly $71,536 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Ector County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), IDEA YUKON ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IDEA YUKON COLLEGE PREPARATORY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around IDEA YUKON ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IDEA YUKON ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, IDEA YUKON ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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