📍 401 S 1st St, Donna, Hidalgo County, 78537
Idea Academy is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Donna, Hidalgo County. The school has 803 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Marycarmen Quintanilla. It is part of the Idea Public Schools school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in a suburban setting. The school employs 32.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 24.5:1. It operates as a public charter school. 34% of students are proficient in reading. 17% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes devices for students.
Idea Academy enrolls 803 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 52% male and 48% female. A teaching staff of 32.8 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 24.5:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 97% Hispanic or Latino and 3.5% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 775 | 97% |
| White | 28 | 3.5% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
793 of the school's 803 students (99%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 776 qualify for free lunch and 17 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Idea Academy is located in a suburban setting (NCES locale: Suburb, Large). It operates as a public charter school. The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district TX At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 27, state house district 39.
Idea Academy is one of 123 schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, based in WESLACO, Texas. The district serves 79,430 students district-wide and employs 3,841 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 803 students, Idea Academy is larger than the district average of about 646 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Suburb - Large