Breaking Now News: IDEA Public Schools Celebrates Milestone Year

IDEA Public Schools in El Paso has kicked off the 2024-25 school year with a bang, welcoming over 6,000 students across its 10 campuses.

This year is especially significant as IDEA Edgemere College Preparatory and IDEA Rio Vista College Preparatory are introducing their first-ever 12th-grade class. The class of 2025 will be the first to graduate from these campuses, fulfilling IDEA's mission to send students to and through college.

Both IDEA Edgemere and IDEA Rio Vista opened in 2018, starting with Kindergarten through second grade and sixth grade, respectively, and have since expanded to include all grade levels. The upcoming seniors, who started as 6th graders, are on track to complete over 11 Advanced Placement courses, career tech courses, and participate in college visits to over 15 institutions.

Tune into Good Morning El Paso for live reports and get a glimpse of their first-ever senior sunrise at IDEA Edgemere.

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• Do you believe all schools should have a college-preparatory focus?
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