BENAVIDES EL

BENAVIDES EL is a K-5 school of micro-enrollment scale in BENAVIDES, Texas, one of the schools within BENAVIDES ISD, teacheing 61 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 88% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

BENAVIDES ISD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 148 students. BENAVIDES EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BENAVIDES EL lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% White. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 82% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BENAVIDES EL has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BENAVIDES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Duval County) shows that median household income runs about $49,038, roughly 7% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Duval County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,346 students), BENAVIDES EL is one campus in the mix.

BENAVIDES SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BENAVIDES EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 65%: 175 students in 2018 compared to 61 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 99% to 95% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 7.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.