Public school / Middle / Charter
Idea Mesquite Hills College Preparatory
El Paso, Texas
- NCES ID
- 480021114267
- District
- Idea Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Idea Mesquite Hills College Preparatory is a public middle school in El Paso, Texas, run by Idea Public Schools. It enrols 201 students — the 77884th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
201
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
20.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
82.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Idea Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Idea Edgemere Academy974 students
- 2Idea Mcallen Academy887 students
- 3Idea North Mission Academy867 students
- 4Idea Weslaco Pike Academy838 students
- 5Idea Academy Mission831 students
- 6Idea Edinburg Academy830 students
- 7Idea Riverview Academy830 students
- 8Idea Rio Vista Academy828 students
- Enrollment−61.3%
- Teachers−71.4%
- Students per teacher+37.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+16.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory