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High · Regular · Grades 6 to 12

IDEA Brownsville College Preparatory, Brownsville, TX

Charter schoolCEP schoolIDEA Brownsville College Preparatory is a public high school in Brownsville, part of IDEA Public Schools. It enrolled 783 students in 2024-25, with 17.4 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "IDEA BROWNSVILLE COLLEGE PREPARATORY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
783
Teachers (FTE)
45.0
Students per teacher
17.4
Grades
6 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 18.4. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.4
District18.4
Texas15.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
4395 Paredes Line Rd, Brownsville, TX 78526
Phone
(956)832-5150
District
IDEA Public Schools
County
Hidalgo County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
480021112683
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
614
Reduced-price lunch
2
Free or reduced-price lunch
61678.7% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in IDEA Public Schools

High schools elsewhere in Brownsville

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.