EMILIANO ZAPATA EL

Set in MISSION, Texas, EMILIANO ZAPATA EL is an average-sized elementary-level community, part of LA JOYA ISD. It instructs 511 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within LA JOYA ISD, which oversees 36 schools and 22,942 students, EMILIANO ZAPATA EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EMILIANO ZAPATA EL records that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

With demographic context factored in, EMILIANO ZAPATA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.3%; this one delivers 31.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which EMILIANO ZAPATA EL is one.

EVANGELINA GARZA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EMILIANO ZAPATA EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EMILIANO ZAPATA EL has declined 21%, going from 646 students in 2018 to 511 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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