CESAR CHAVEZ EL

Located at 2600 HART RD, in LITTLE ELM, Texas, CESAR CHAVEZ EL is a tight-knit primary school that caters to 424 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by LITTLE ELM ISD.

LITTLE ELM ISD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 8,036 students; CESAR CHAVEZ EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CESAR CHAVEZ EL logs that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 21% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CESAR CHAVEZ EL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at CESAR CHAVEZ EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CESAR CHAVEZ EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.7%; this one comes in at 29.2%, -20.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Denton County shows median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. CESAR CHAVEZ EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).

Nearest neighbor: LITTLE ELM H S, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CESAR CHAVEZ EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CESAR CHAVEZ EL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 41%: 713 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 44% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for CESAR CHAVEZ EL typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.