BUENA VISTA EL

BUENA VISTA EL, a mid-sized primary school in DEL RIO, Texas, run under SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD, hosts 515 students, covering grades K through 5.

SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 9,767 students; BUENA VISTA EL is among them.

On demographics, BUENA VISTA EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest comes out to 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 81% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Val Verde County's rate of about 72%.

With demographic context factored in, BUENA VISTA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Val Verde County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,100 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Val Verde County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,448 students), of which BUENA VISTA EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HERITAGE ACADEMY OF DEL RIO, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BUENA VISTA EL. On composite proficiency, BUENA VISTA EL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BUENA VISTA EL has shrank 23%, going from 670 students in 2018 to 515 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 83% to 91%. Class-load math has rose: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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