Geraldine Palmer Elementary School

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD, Geraldine Palmer Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 2.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 521 students, so Geraldine Palmer Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 118 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 87, against an average of 94 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (87 against 97). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 118 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (98.8%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Geraldine Palmer Elementary School has 37.99 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 657 students would have about 44.4 teachers, so Geraldine Palmer Elementary School has 6.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Aida C Escobar Elementary School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 41 elementary schools within 5 miles and 109 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.