About Idea Public Schools
Idea Public Schools is a public school system serving Hidalgo County, Florida, based in Weslaco. It serves 4,602 students across 5 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #52 largest of Florida’s 82 school systems.
Size and structure
Idea Public Schools enrolls 4,602 students in 5 schools — an average of about 920 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #52 of 82 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Idea Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (4,602 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Idea Public Schools employs about 217 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 21.2:1 — above the Florida average of about 18.3:1. Total district staff is roughly 537.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Florida funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Idea Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Florida assigns A–F grades to every school and district from achievement and learning gains in English language arts, math and science, the gains of the lowest-performing quartile, graduation rate and college-and-career acceleration. Look up Idea Public Schools’s grade on the Florida school grades page.
Accreditation status
Most Florida districts are accredited through Cognia (via its SACS CASI division), which accredits whole district “systems” as well as individual schools. Look up Idea Public Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Idea Public Schools vs. Florida
See every Florida district side by side in the Florida directory.
Look up Idea Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):