DE ZAVALA EL

DE ZAVALA EL is a moderately sized elementary school in MIDLAND, Texas, part of MIDLAND ISD. The school caters to 669 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DE ZAVALA EL sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

MIDLAND ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 29,651 students; DE ZAVALA EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, DE ZAVALA EL logs that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Black, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

On the income-and-resources front, DE ZAVALA EL reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Midland County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DE ZAVALA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.2%; this one delivers 25.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Midland County) records that the typical household earns roughly $92,874 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Midland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), of which DE ZAVALA EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MIDLAND ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DE ZAVALA EL. On composite proficiency, DE ZAVALA EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DE ZAVALA EL has rose 14%, going from 588 students in 2018 to 669 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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