High · Texas
IDEA Mcallen College Preparatory
CharterFree meals for allIDEA Mcallen College Preparatory, a public high school in Mcallen, Texas: grades 6–12, 820 students, 16.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of IDEA Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 820
- Teachers (FTE)
- 48.5
- Students per teacher
- 16.9
- Grades
- 6–12
- High
More students per teacher than 79% of high schools in Texas
Median 13.8 · 1,941 schools compared
More students per teacher than 67% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 68% of high schools in Texas
Median 365 · 2,123 schools compared
Larger than 69% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 6–12
- Type
- Charter school · Regular
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- IDEA Public Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with IDEA Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 201 N Bentsen Rd, Mcallen, TX 78501
- Phone
- (956)429-4100
- City or town
- McAllen
- County
- Hidalgo County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Sharyland Advanced Academic AcademyFree meals for all | 9–12 | 481 | 8.7 |
Sharyland H SFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,527 | 18.1 |
Rowe H SFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,905 | 12.7 |
Instr/Guid CenterAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–11 | 60 | 5.5 |
Achieve Early College H SFree meals for all | 9–12 | 428 | 12.9 |
Triumph Public High Schools-McallenCharterAlternative | 9–12 | 118 | 16.9 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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