# IDEA MCALLEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480021112679`
- **School name**: IDEA MCALLEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY
- **Location**: MCALLEN, TX 78501
- **Address**: 201 N BENTSEN RD
- **District**: IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LEAID `4800211`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 26.21042, -98.27048
- **Phone**: (956)429-4100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 820
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 48
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 97

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 95.3% proficient — 128 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 53.9% proficient, 35.2% advanced — 128 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 93.5% proficient — 1,392 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 67.7% proficient, 32.4% advanced — 1,392 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.3% proficient — 118 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 72.0% proficient, 48.3% advanced — 118 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 94.3% proficient — 105 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 83.8% proficient, 31.4% advanced — 105 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 95.1% proficient — 102 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 82.4% proficient, 12.7% advanced — 102 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 90.0% proficient — 441 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 83.6% proficient — 116 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 89.6% proficient — 125 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 53.1% proficient, 22.9% advanced — 441 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 62.1% proficient, 25.9% advanced — 116 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 45.6% proficient, 20.0% advanced — 125 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 96.8% (cohort of 93)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 123

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (7 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 1.1% (9 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 0.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.8% — 31 students
- **English Learners**: 41.6% — 336 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,185
- **Federal share**: $1,368
- **State + local share**: $9,816
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 772
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,148,659
- **Federal share**: 20.4%
- **State share**: 76.8%
- **Local share**: 2.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,906,086

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,537
- **Poverty rate**: 13.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,448
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.3 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.53 miles (BICENTENNIAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCALLEN PUBLIC UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/idea-mcallen-college-preparatory-mcallen/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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