BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL

Set in EAGLE PASS, Texas, BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL is a tight-knit elementary school, run under EAGLE PASS ISD. It teaches 308 students across grades 1 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

Within EAGLE PASS ISD, which oversees 24 schools and 13,820 students, BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL shows that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Maverick County's rate of about 78%.

After controlling for student poverty, BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.6%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Maverick County) records that median household income runs about $49,568, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. In all, Maverick County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,820 students), of which BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: JUAN N SEGUIN EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BENAVIDES HEIGHTS EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 313 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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