IDEA Parmer Park Academy

Size

IDEA Parmer Park Academy is the 47th largest of IDEA Public Schools' 62 elementary schools; its 621 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 500; IDEA Parmer Park Academy is close to their typical size.

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 3 with 121 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 85, against an average of 104 per grade. This year grade 5 has 29% more students than kindergarten (110 against 85). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 72% here and 85.2% across IDEA Public Schools. Black students are next, at 15.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81% of its students are eligible 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

With 28.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 621 students, IDEA Parmer Park Academy has 22 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 621 students would have about 42 teachers, so IDEA Parmer Park Academy has 13.7 fewer.

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

Location

IDEA Parmer Park Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Copperfield Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Pflugerville ISD. Within 10 miles there are 119 other elementary schools, 42 of them within 5 miles.

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