Palmer-Laakso Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Los Fresnos CISD, Palmer-Laakso Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 5.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 6.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 527; Palmer-Laakso Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 105 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 68, against an average of 83 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% more students than kindergarten (87 against 75). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 68 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 96.7% here and 96.8% across Los Fresnos CISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 76.8% across Los Fresnos CISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under Provision 2 or 3 of the National School Lunch Program, every student eats at no charge; meal applications are only collected in a base year.

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

Teachers

With 37.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 582 students, Palmer-Laakso Elementary School has 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 582 students would have about 39.3 teachers, so Palmer-Laakso Elementary School has 1.5 fewer.

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

Location

Palmer-Laakso Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Lopez-Riggins Elementary School, 3 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other elementary schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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