PALMER EL

Set in MISSOURI CITY, Texas, PALMER EL is a sizable primary school, one of the schools within FORT BEND ISD. It hosts 802 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PALMER EL sits 55% bigger than that benchmark.

FORT BEND ISD comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 79,663 students; PALMER EL is among them.

On demographics, PALMER EL shows that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 17% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 8% White, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PALMER EL has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Fort Bend County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALMER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fort Bend County) records that the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which PALMER EL is one.

LAKE OLYMPIA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALMER EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALMER EL has grew 38%, going from 582 students in 2018 to 802 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment contracted from 23% to 17% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.