DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR

Located at 9113 N VAL VERDE RD, in DONNA, Texas, DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR is a medium-sized elementary school that teaches 560 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under DONNA ISD.

Within DONNA ISD, which oversees 20 schools and 12,937 students, DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%).

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.7%; this one delivers 21.6%.

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%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR is one.

PATRICIA S GARZA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DANIEL SINGLETERRY SR has ticked up 4%, going from 536 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025.

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