DR WILLIAM LONG EL

As a moderately sized K-5 school in PHARR, Texas, DR WILLIAM LONG EL educates 767 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD. That puts it 48% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 29,749 students. DR WILLIAM LONG EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, DR WILLIAM LONG EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%).

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DR WILLIAM LONG EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of +12.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which DR WILLIAM LONG EL is one.

PSJA NORTH EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DR WILLIAM LONG EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 900 students in 2018 compared to 767 in 2025.

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