IDEA Parmer Park College Preparatory

Size

Of the 47 high schools in IDEA Public Schools, IDEA Parmer Park College Preparatory is the 34th largest, with 0.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 792 students, so IDEA Parmer Park College Preparatory is smaller 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 7 with 130 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 86, against an average of 104 per grade. This year grade 11 has 18% fewer students than grade 6 (94 against 114). 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 82.5% of enrollment, about the same share as across IDEA Public Schools (85.2%). Black students are next, at 10.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.9% across IDEA Public Schools and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 Parmer Park College Preparatory has 37.69 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 624 students would have about 44.6 teachers, so IDEA Parmer Park College Preparatory has 6.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Nyos Lamar Secondary, 1.8 miles away in Nyos Charter School. There are 17 high schools within 5 miles and 43 within 10 miles.

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