ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL

ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas, one of the schools within RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 420 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 15 schools in RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (9,316 students total), ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Starr County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $37,639 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 31% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL is one of 29 public schools in Starr County (combined enrollment of about 16,900 students).

Nearest neighbor: RINGGOLD EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 47.4%.

ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL has edged down 21%, going from 535 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 22% to 1%.

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