CORINA PENA EL

CORINA PENA EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in PENITAS, Texas, part of LA JOYA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 523 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

CORINA PENA EL is one of 36 schools operated by LA JOYA ISD, a district that serves 22,942 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CORINA PENA EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%).

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 97% of students at CORINA PENA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CORINA PENA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.7%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hidalgo County shows median household income runs about $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), CORINA PENA EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DR MARIA PALMIRA MENDIOLA EL, roughly 2.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORINA PENA EL. On composite proficiency, CORINA PENA EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CORINA PENA EL has shrank 25%, going from 702 students in 2018 to 523 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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