IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY

IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY, an average-sized primary school in MISSION, Texas, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, caters to 705 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 36% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 125 schools in IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (79,430 students total), IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%); the rest is composed of 4% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.1%; this one delivers 27.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) shows that median household income runs about $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.