DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL

Located at 4186 W US HWY 83, in RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas, DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL is a mid-sized K-5 school that teaches 487 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by ROMA ISD.

ROMA ISD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,019 students. DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.6%; actual is 87.7%, +54.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Starr County reports that median household income runs about $37,639, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 31%. DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL is one of 29 public schools in Starr County (combined enrollment of about 16,900 students).

RT BARRERA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL. On composite proficiency, DELIA GONZALEZ GARCIA EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

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