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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD·NCES 483486003923
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School
701 E SAM HOUSTON, SAN JUAN, TX 78589 · (956) 354-2910 · Hidalgo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Texas public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
493 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 87 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
58.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +33.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
56.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +38.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 38 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 31.0% | 27.0% | 21.0% | 21.0% |
| Mathematics | 32.0% | 24.0% | 20.0% | 24.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 58.0% | 56.0% |
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 40.0% |
| 2021-22 | 47.0% | 38.0% |
| 2020-21 | 25.0% | 18.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alfred Sorensen Elementary School
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School's state test result (48.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Sorensen Elementary School this school | 583 | 84.6% | 48.1% |
| Hueco Elementary School EL PASO | 573 | 85.5% | 41.8% |
| Mission Valley Elementary School EL PASO | 604 | 86.4% | 35.3% |
| Dr Fermin Calderon Elementary School DEL RIO | 623 | 84.9% | 32.8% |
| Ruben Chavira Elementary School DEL RIO | 563 | 86.7% | 32.0% |
| Jose De Escandon Elementary School MISSION | 614 | 86.5% | 51.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alfred Sorensen Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.1% | #1,621 of 4,401 | #68 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,246 of 4,466 ▼ 6 | #49 of 183 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,660 of 4,466 ▼ 27 | #59 of 183 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +19.0pp | #585 of 3,998 | #21 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #1,747 of 4,938 | #63 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #3,747 of 4,622 | #126 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.0% | #4,413 of 4,628 | #89 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.6% | #1,593 of 4,789 | #141 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.0% | #1,596 of 2,838 | #81 of 128 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 465
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 34.9 | 16.7:1 | 85% (493) |
| 2023-24 | 606 | 35.3 | 17.1:1 | 84% (510) |
| 2022-23 | 616 | 33.9 | 18.2:1 | 83% (512) |
| 2020-21 | 594 | 35 | 17.0:1 | 83% (495) |
| 2017-18 | 686 | 36.4 | 18.9:1 | 82% (561) |
| 2015-16 | 688 | 38 | 18.1:1 | 80% (547) |
| 2010-11 | 513 | 29 | 17.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 347 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 8% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 465 | 23 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alfred Sorensen Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (686 to 583); teachers down 4% (36.4 to 34.9).
About Alfred Sorensen Elementary School
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school located in SAN JUAN, Texas. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 583 students.
PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD has 29,749 students in 44 schools, and Alfred Sorensen Elementary School is one of those schools.
Most students at Alfred Sorensen Elementary School are Hispanic: 98% of enrollment. By the diversity index, Alfred Sorensen Elementary School comes in at 3%.
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School employs 34.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 16.7:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, lower than at this school. Alfred Sorensen Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 85%. That is close to the 85% average for public schools in Hidalgo County.
allk12 grades Alfred Sorensen Elementary School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Texas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 48.1% is 10.5 points above the 37.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
According to the American Community Survey, in Hidalgo County, median household income is about $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 364 public schools operate in Hidalgo County, serving about 212,859 students.
The shortest distance from Alfred Sorensen Elementary School to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Austin Middle School. The five-mile area around Alfred Sorensen Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 43.2%, lower than Alfred Sorensen Elementary School's 48.1%.
The NCES locale for Alfred Sorensen Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 594 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 583.
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Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD
- Psja Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,300 students
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- Psja Memorial Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Psja Southwest Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Lyndon B Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- Austin Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
Other schools in SAN JUAN
- Psja Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,300 students
- Austin Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- IDEA College Preparatory San JuanHigh · 741 students
- R Yzaguirre Middle SchoolMiddle · 736 students
- Edith & Ethel Carman Elementary SchoolElementary · 686 students
- IDEA Academy San JuanElementary · 617 students
Nearby schools
- Austin Middle School0.3 mi · 833
- Texasworks - San Juan0.6 mi · 9
- Premier H S of San Juan0.6 mi · 108
- Vida N Clover Elementary School0.7 mi · 378
- Psja Alamo Building Blocks Academy0.7 mi · 94
- Edith & Ethel Carman Elementary School0.8 mi · 686
Frequently asked questions
About Alfred Sorensen Elementary SchoolHow large is Alfred Sorensen Elementary School?
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School enrolls approximately 583 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Alfred Sorensen Elementary School serve?
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Alfred Sorensen Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Alfred Sorensen Elementary School is approximately 16.7:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Alfred Sorensen Elementary School?
At Alfred Sorensen Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black.
Is Alfred Sorensen Elementary School public or private?
Alfred Sorensen Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.