BENITO JUAREZ EL

BENITO JUAREZ EL is an elementary school of compact scale in CRYSTAL CITY, Texas, one of the schools within CRYSTAL CITY ISD, instructing 250 students in grades 4 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

Within CRYSTAL CITY ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 1,643 students, BENITO JUAREZ EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BENITO JUAREZ EL shows that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BENITO JUAREZ EL has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BENITO JUAREZ EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.4%; this one comes in at 23.6%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Zavala County indicate the typical household earns roughly $36,749 per year, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 31% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BENITO JUAREZ EL is one of 8 public schools in Zavala County (combined enrollment of about 2,174 students).

DR TOMAS RIVERA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BENITO JUAREZ EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 36.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 300 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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