CARLOS F TRUAN J H

CARLOS F TRUAN J H operates as a mid-tier middle school in ELSA, Texas, one of the schools within EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 584 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,349 students; CARLOS F TRUAN J H is among them.

Looking at the student body, CARLOS F TRUAN J H logs that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Hidalgo County as a whole is about 92% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CARLOS F TRUAN J H tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARLOS F TRUAN J H sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.3%; this one delivers 29.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), CARLOS F TRUAN J H is one campus in the mix.

EDCOUCH-ELSA H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARLOS F TRUAN J H at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 34.2%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARLOS F TRUAN J H has shrank 46%, going from 1,074 students in 2018 to 584 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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