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Public school / Primary

Parkdale El

Waco, Texas

NCES ID
484428005051
District
Waco ISD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Parkdale El is a public primary school in Waco, Texas, run by Waco ISD. It enrols 559 students — the 30660th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.

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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

559students

30660th nationally, tied with 108

Teachers

35.0FTE

32359th nationally, tied with 1,704

Students per teacher

16.0students

56681st nationally, tied with 887

Free or reduced-price lunch

91.9%percent

11250th nationally, tied with 88

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.

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Within Waco 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Waco H S2,011 students
  2. 2University H S1,678 students
  3. 3Tennyson Middle999 students
  4. 4Cesar Chavez Middle840 students
  5. 5Bell'S Hill El760 students
  6. 6Lake Air Montessori School697 students
  7. 7Dean Highland El598 students
  8. 8Parkdale El559 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Texas median across 9,692 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+7.5%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher+9.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+29.8%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.