IDEA Palmview Academy

Size

Of the 62 elementary schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Palmview Academy is the 21st largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 497 students, so IDEA Palmview Academy is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 grade 4 with 138 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 91, against an average of 118 per grade. This year grade 5 has 37% more students than kindergarten (125 against 91). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 95.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools 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

IDEA Palmview Academy has 33.05 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 705 students would have about 47.6 teachers, so IDEA Palmview Academy has 14.6 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 Lloyd M Bentsen Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in La Joya ISD. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 76 within 10 miles.

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