CAPT D SALINAS II EL

CAPT D SALINAS II EL, a medium-sized primary school in ALAMO, Texas, overseen by DONNA ISD, instructs 457 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

DONNA ISD comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 12,937 students; CAPT D SALINAS II EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, CAPT D SALINAS II EL logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Hidalgo County as a whole is about 92% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CAPT D SALINAS II EL reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at CAPT D SALINAS II EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, CAPT D SALINAS II EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Hidalgo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. CAPT D SALINAS II EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

VANGUARD MOZART is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CAPT D SALINAS II EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.7%.

CAPT D SALINAS II EL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 457 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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