DR R E MARGO EL

DR R E MARGO EL operates as a sprawling elementary-level community in WESLACO, Texas, run under WESLACO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,085 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 109% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

DR R E MARGO EL is one of 20 schools operated by WESLACO ISD, a district that instructs 16,300 students overall.

On the student-mix side, DR R E MARGO EL shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the resource side, On paper, DR R E MARGO EL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR R E MARGO EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 36.7%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DR R E MARGO EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

ARMANDO CUELLAR MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR R E MARGO EL. On composite proficiency, DR R E MARGO EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DR R E MARGO EL's enrollment has expanded 15% since 2018, when it stood at 941 (now 1,085). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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