Park Place Elementary School

Size

Of the 178 elementary schools in Houston ISD, Park Place Elementary School is the 46th largest, with 0.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 504; Park Place 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 grade 5 with 126 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 83, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 5 has 45% more students than kindergarten (126 against 87). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 101 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 80.5% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. Asian students are next, at 14.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

With 42.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 686 students, Park Place Elementary School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 686 students would have about 46.4 teachers, so Park Place Elementary School has 3.5 fewer.

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

Location

Park Place Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Pstem Academy, 0.7 miles away in Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success. Within 10 miles there are 183 other elementary schools, 64 of them within 5 miles.

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