Parks Elementary School

Size

Parks Elementary School is the 31st largest of Pasadena ISD's 36 elementary schools; its 379 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 505 students, so Parks Elementary School is smaller 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 4 with 76 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 38, against an average of 63 per grade. This year grade 4 has 31% more students than kindergarten (76 against 58). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 38 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 83.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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

Parks Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 379 students would have about 25.6 teachers, so Parks Elementary School has 10.4 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 McMasters Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 37 elementary schools within 5 miles and 134 within 10 miles.

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