📍 101 e Expy 83, La Joya, Hidalgo County, 78560
Hope Academy is an Alternative/PRU serving high age pupils, located in La Joya, Hidalgo County. The school has 59 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Juan Quiroz. It is part of the La Joya Isd school district. It serves grades 6–12 in a suburban setting. The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 5.9:1. The school offers dual enrollment. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Hope Academy enrolls 59 students across grades 6–12. The student body is 86% male and 14% female. A teaching staff of 10 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 5.9:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 100% Hispanic or Latino.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 59 | 100% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
58 of the school's 59 students (98%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 58 qualify for free lunch and 0 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Hope Academy is located in a suburban setting (NCES locale: Suburb, Large). 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 20, state house district 35.
Hope Academy is one of 37 schools in LA JOYA ISD, based in LA JOYA, Texas. The district serves 22,942 students district-wide and employs 1,792 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 59 students, Hope Academy is smaller than the district average of about 620 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Suburb - Large