DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in HARLINGEN, Texas, DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL enrolls 674 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under HARLINGEN CISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL sits 30% above that benchmark.

DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL is one of 31 schools operated by HARLINGEN CISD, a district that instructs 17,506 students overall.

On demographics, DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest reads as 6% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.7%; this one delivers 52.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cameron County) reports that median household income runs about $52,601, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL is one campus in the mix.

WILSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL. On composite proficiency, DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR HESIQUIO RODRIGUEZ EL has shrank 8%, going from 731 students in 2018 to 674 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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