The school held classes at Amigoland Mall for its first two years, after which the campus moved to its current Dakota Avenue location.

IDEA Frontier offers Advanced Placement and dual-credit courses (through the University of Texas at Austin system).

[4][5] Since becoming a fully scaled school, IDEA Frontier has successfully sent all of its graduating seniors to colleges and universities.

[8] Senior Vice President of Schools[9] Michael Hardy won the Texas State Educator awards through H-E-B in the Rising Star Secondary Category, winning a $5,000 prize for his campus and another $5,000 for himself.

TBEC Honor Roll schools have the highest percentage of students performing at the state's most rigorous standard — commended — in all subjects on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.

[17] In 2015, the Texas Education Agency also awarded IDEA Frontier all seven distinctions for Academic Achievement in Reading/English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, as well as Top 25 Percent: Student Progress and Closing Performance Gaps.

[19] The Texas Charter Schools Association recognized IDEA Frontier College Preparatory for showing consistency in high student performance and growth in 2013.

The organization tracks charter schools around the state and compare the level of proficiency they perform for three years.

According to the U.S News & World Report, the school has been present in their national, state, and charter rankings for four consecutive years.

[24] The school ranked 85 nationally and 27 statewide in 2014, earning a gold medal for being a top performer in the College Readiness Index.

[2][27] The rankings for the annual report are based on a College Readiness Index, the percentage of students who AP tested and passed, as well as proficiency in Mathematics and English.

IDEA Frontier read a total of 873,380 minutes, placing them in Scholastic’s Book of World Records for the 2013 issue.

[31][32] The school, along with two other IDEA campuses, was recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for demonstrating excellence in nutrition and physical activity.

IDEA was founded in 2000 by Tom Torkelson and JoAnn Gama, Teach For America corps members dedicated to making sure all underserved students can go to college.

Starting with College Preparatory classes, students have different teachers for different subjects, as in a traditional school system.

Starting as early as the third grade, students will visit many universities by the time they complete their senior year.

The purpose of field lessons is to give students a learning experience about the culture of universities and the way classes function.

The school also offers the Texas Distinguished Program, which is more demanding by requiring Pre-AP and AP courses.

The school won their district title for two consecutive years and went to the state competition in 2015, making it to 10th place in the finals.

[36][37] Aside from sports, students also participate in many academic teams such as: Calculator Applications, Current Issues and Events, Headline Writing and Number Sense.