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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at CESAR CHAVEZ EL this year?
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Enrollment
403
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD·NCES 483486008293
Cesar Chavez Elementary School
401 E THOMAS RD, PHARR, TX 78577 · (956) 354-2720 · Hidalgo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL403 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
396 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 81 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
1%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
71.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +41.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
82.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +72.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 72 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 39.0% | 32.0% | 20.0% | 9.0% |
| Mathematics | 49.0% | 33.0% | 10.0% | 8.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 71.0% | 82.0% |
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 55.0% |
| 2022-23 | 54.0% | 60.0% |
| 2021-22 | 43.0% | 51.0% |
| 2020-21 | 30.0% | 10.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cesar Chavez Elementary School
Cesar Chavez Elementary School's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cesar Chavez Elementary School this school | 403 | 98.3% | 53.5% |
| Sgt Leonel Trevino Elementary School SAN JUAN | 401 | 98.0% | 41.3% |
| Daiches Elementary School LAREDO | 405 | 99.0% | 70.8% |
| Gallegos Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 390 | 98.2% | 48.8% |
| Capistrano Elementary School EL PASO | 415 | 97.8% | 22.8% |
| Grulla Elementary School GRULLA | 414 | 97.3% | 57.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cesar Chavez Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #1,167 of 4,401 | #38 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #107 of 4,466 ▲ 512 | #1 of 183 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #694 of 4,466 ▲ 438 | #9 of 183 ▲ 23 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +19.5pp | #538 of 3,998 | #19 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 403 | #3,454 of 4,938 | #141 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,095 of 4,622 | #14 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 1.0% | #4,533 of 4,628 | #138 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #148 of 4,789 | #11 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #1,922 of 2,838 | #94 of 128 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
403
-40 (-9%) vs 2020
-40% since 2000-01, when it was 671
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 403 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 98% (396) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 29.1 | 14.4:1 | 97% (407) |
| 2022-23 | 405 | 29.2 | 13.9:1 | 100% (404) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 30 | 14.8:1 | 95% (423) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 27.6 | 16.5:1 | 98% (444) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 29 | 15.5:1 | 95% (428) |
| 2010-11 | 837 | 46 | 18.2:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 671 | 41 | 16.4:1 | 15% (102) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (455 to 403); teachers up 9% (27.6 to 30).
About Cesar Chavez Elementary School
Federal records list Cesar Chavez Elementary School as an elementary school in PHARR, Texas. The school has 403 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. The school is 22% below the average for elementary schools in Texas.
PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD is responsible for 44 schools, Cesar Chavez Elementary School included, with 29,749 students in all.
By race and ethnicity, Cesar Chavez Elementary School is 100% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 1%.
For every teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School, there are about 13.4 students; the school has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 98%. Compared with the 85% average for public schools in Hidalgo County, the school's rate is higher.
Cesar Chavez Elementary School is a top-10% school in Texas on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.7% with an actual 53.5%.
The school is in Hidalgo County, where median household income comes to about $54,338, roughly 21% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hidalgo County's 364 public schools enroll about 212,859 students and include Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
About 0.3 miles separate Cesar Chavez Elementary School from the closest public school, Berta S Palacios Elementary School. The five-mile area around Cesar Chavez Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 55.2% on proficiency, and Cesar Chavez Elementary School is below that at 53.5%.
Federal data place Cesar Chavez Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell 9% over 4 years, reaching 403 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.8:1 to 13.4:1 over the same years.
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Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD
- Psja Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,300 students
- Psja North Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,166 students
- Psja Memorial Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Psja Southwest Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Lyndon B Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- Austin Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
Other schools in PHARR
- Psja North Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,166 students
- Vanguard RembrandtCombined · 1,978 students
- Psja Southwest Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Vanguard Van GoghCombined · 1,048 students
- Lyndon B Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- IDEA College Preparatory PharrHigh · 848 students
Other Cesar Chavez Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 8 states are named Cesar Chavez Elementary. Cesar Chavez Elementary School is the 11th largest of the 15.
- Cesar Chavez Elementary SchoolLITTLE ELM, TX · 424 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementarySan Luis, AZ · 766 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryCalexico, CA · 765 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryMadera, CA · 659 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryGreenfield, CA · 642 students
Nearby schools
- Berta S Palacios Elementary School0.3 mi · 470
- Jaime Escalante Middle School0.3 mi · 554
- Jc Kelly Elementary School1.0 mi · 260
- Carmen Anaya Elementary School1.1 mi · 429
- IDEA Academy Pharr1.2 mi · 717
- IDEA College Preparatory Pharr1.2 mi · 848
Frequently asked questions
About Cesar Chavez Elementary SchoolHow large is Cesar Chavez Elementary School?
Cesar Chavez Elementary School enrolls approximately 403 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cesar Chavez Elementary School serve?
Cesar Chavez Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Cesar Chavez Elementary School?
Student demographics at Cesar Chavez Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 100% Hispanic.
Who oversees Cesar Chavez Elementary School?
Cesar Chavez Elementary School is overseen by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD in Hidalgo County.
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