DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY

DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY is one of the cozy middle schools in EDCOUCH, Texas, operated by EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD, with 264 students on its rolls from grade 6. That puts it 59% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,349 students; DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY is among them.

In terms of who attends, DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). By comparison, Hidalgo County as a whole is about 92% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Hidalgo County shows median household income runs about $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

The closest other public school is JORGE R GUTIERREZ EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Inside the community feed, members of the DAVID YBARRA FINE ARTS ACADEMY community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.