Parkdale Elementary School

Size

Of the 15 elementary schools in Waco ISD, Parkdale Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 3.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 506 students, so Parkdale 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 kindergarten with 97 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 58, against an average of 71 per grade. This year grade 5 has 24% fewer students than kindergarten (74 against 97). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 61 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 44.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across Waco ISD (62.5%). Black students are next, at 38.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.1% across Waco ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Parkdale Elementary School has 35.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 497 students would have about 33.6 teachers, so Parkdale Elementary School has 2.4 more.

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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Harmony Science Academy (Waco), 0.5 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. There are 19 elementary schools within 5 miles and 33 within 10 miles.

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