IDEA RIO GRANDE CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY

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PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S → RIO GRANDE CITY H S → INSTRUCTIONAL & GUIDANCE CENTER → ROMA H S → GRULLA H S → THELMA ROSA SALINAS STEM EARLY COLLEGE H S → HOPE ACADEMY → JIMMY CARTER EARLY COLLEGE H S →

📋 At a glance

Programs & features

📚 2 AP courses offered — Limited

Academic signals

🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How IDEA RIO GRANDE CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY compares for families

What families should know about IDEA RIO GRANDE CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY.

▸ LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S, RIO GRANDE CITY H S, INSTRUCTIONAL & GUIDANCE CENTER and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Limited — narrow advanced curriculum

Bottom 18% of US high schools

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AP courses offered

Subject breadth not reported

Other rigor signals

No dual-enrollment or gifted program reported

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

0.0

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)

94.3%

Elevated — a quarter or more of teachers are in years 1-2. Often correlates with school instability.

% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)

33.3%

Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

90.1%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days

2.4%

Below 10% — strong attendance culture. Chronic absence is a leading indicator of dropout and disengagement; a low rate signals families staying connected to the school.

Students absent 15+ days

Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 74 in 2023 to 55 in 2024 — over 1 years.

-25.7%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +12.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 695 students:

2025

784

2027

996

2029

1,266

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $13,366 per student in district revenue, the 571 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $7,631,986/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S RIO GRANDE CITY	Public	1.0	430	-5.5%
RIO GRANDE CITY H S RIO GRANDE CITY	Public	5.8	1,670	-4.7%
INSTRUCTIONAL & GUIDANCE CENTER ROMA	Public	7.0	27	—
ROMA H S ROMA	Public	10.8	1,721	-1.0%
GRULLA H S RIO GRANDE CITY	Public	13.0	716	-0.3%
THELMA ROSA SALINAS STEM EARLY COLLEGE H S LA JOYA	Public	25.7	471	+3.3%
HOPE ACADEMY LA JOYA	Public	25.7	57	—
JIMMY CARTER EARLY COLLEGE H S LA JOYA	Public	25.7	327	-8.7%