Public school / Primary
Geraldine Palmer El
Pharr, Texas
- NCES ID
- 483486003917
- District
- Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Geraldine Palmer El is a public primary school in Pharr, Texas, run by Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. It enrols 644 students — the 23072nd largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
644
Teachers
36.0
Students per teacher
17.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Psja Early College H S2,459 students
- 2Psja North Early College H S2,176 students
- 3Psja Memorial Early College H S1,860 students
- 4Psja Southwest Early College H S1,692 students
- 5Lyndon B Johnson Middle1,003 students
- 6Austin Middle951 students
- 7Liberty Middle795 students
- 8Dr William Long El792 students
- Enrollment+23.8%
- Teachers+2.9%
- Students per teacher+22.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+24.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory