2024-25 school year: 79,430 students enrolled in Idea Public Schools

Idea Public Schools enrolled 79,430 students in the 2024-25 school year, a 3.4% increase from 76,819 the previous year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

Among the student body, 51.1% were boys and 48.9% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were Hispanic (67,683), representing 85.2% of the district’s total enrollment. Black students were the second-largest group, totaling 6,093 students (7.7%).

The grade level with the highest enrollment was sixth grade, with 7,429 students enrolled that year, accounting for 9.4% of the total student body.

The district covers 125 schools, and has a central office in Weslaco.

Texas has the nation’s second-largest K-12 public school system, serving about 5.5 million students with a student-to-teacher ratio of roughly 15:1.

About 42,103 teachers in Texas, or 12% of the state’s 352,234 teachers, did not hold an active teaching certificate during the 2024-25 school year, according to a report from the Texas Education Agency. The share of uncertified teachers has increased from 3.8% in the 2019-20 school year.

A 2026 study by WalletHub classified Texas as one of the least-educated states in the U.S., ranking it 41st out of 50 in educational quality and student outcomes.

Information in this article was obtained from the Texas Education Agency. The source data can be found here.