IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY

As a small junior high in MISSION, Texas, IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY works with 446 students from grades 6 through 10, operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 125 schools with combined enrollment of 79,430 students; IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY is among them.

On demographics, IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). The remainder is composed of 2% White.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 30.4%; actual is 46.1%, +15.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IDEA PALMVIEW ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site. As a public charter, IDEA PALMVIEW COLLEGE PREPARATORY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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