IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY

As a compact secondary school in AUSTIN, Texas, IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY caters to 624 students from grades 6 through 11, overseen by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY shows that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 10% Black, 4% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Travis County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IDEA PARMER PARK ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. IDEA PARMER PARK COLLEGE PREPARATORY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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