COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL

Set in LAREDO, Texas, COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL is a substantial elementary campus, run under UNITED ISD. It teaches 790 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL sits 52% bigger than that benchmark.

UNITED ISD runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 40,742 students. COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Webb County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Webb County's rate of about 83%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.9%; this one delivers 66.2%.

Around the school, census data for Webb County shows median household earnings sit near $63,058, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL is one campus in the mix.

ROBERTO J SANTOS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COL SANTOS BENAVIDES EL has ticked down 24%, going from 1,044 students in 2018 to 790 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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