BENITO MARTINEZ EL

BENITO MARTINEZ EL is one of the compact primary schools in FT HANCOCK, Texas, overseen by FT HANCOCK ISD, with 227 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 519.

FT HANCOCK ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 390 students; BENITO MARTINEZ EL is among them.

On demographics, BENITO MARTINEZ EL reports that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Hudspeth County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, BENITO MARTINEZ EL logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BENITO MARTINEZ EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the area at large, Hudspeth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,600 per year, roughly 10% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Hudspeth County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 566 students), of which BENITO MARTINEZ EL is one.

The closest other public school is FORT HANCOCK H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BENITO MARTINEZ EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 14%: 200 students in 2018 compared to 227 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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