ENCINAL EL

Set in ENCINAL, Texas, ENCINAL EL is a rural-scale primary school, overseen by COTULLA ISD. It instructs 74 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 86% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

COTULLA ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,157 students; ENCINAL EL is among them.

On demographics, ENCINAL EL lists that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. By comparison, La Salle County as a whole is about 72% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ENCINAL EL has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ENCINAL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, ENCINAL EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.7%; ENCINAL EL posts 19.7%, -17.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for La Salle County put median household earnings sit near $57,716, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. ENCINAL EL is one of 4 public schools in La Salle County (combined enrollment of about 1,157 students).

FRANK NEWMAN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 28.2 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ENCINAL EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ENCINAL EL has contracted 41%, going from 125 students in 2018 to 74 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 94% to 99% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

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