D D HACHAR EL

D D HACHAR EL is a primary school of moderately sized scale in LAREDO, Texas, one of the schools within LAREDO ISD, teacheing 443 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 30 schools in LAREDO ISD (20,271 students total), D D HACHAR EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, D D HACHAR EL records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Webb County's rate of about 83%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, D D HACHAR EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 31.8%; actual is 60.0%, +28.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Webb County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Webb County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), of which D D HACHAR EL is one.

LAMAR MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around D D HACHAR EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts D D HACHAR EL at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 55.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 541 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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