Enrollment
74
Elementary
DISTRICT 271 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COTULLA ISD·NCES 481540001115
ENCINAL EL
503 ENCINAL BLVD, ENCINAL, TX 78019 · (956) 948-5324 · La Salle County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL74 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
10 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
63 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within COTULLA ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
24.0%
TX avg 51.8% . +7.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
15.0%
TX avg 42.0% . -18.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 18 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
74
-51 (-41%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
was 12.2:1
% White
1%
was 5%
% Hispanic
99%
was 94%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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La Salle County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
6,839
Census ACS
Median income
$57,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
12%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
4
1,157 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COTULLA ISD
- RAMIREZ-BURKS ELElementary · 468 students
- COTULLA H SHigh · 356 students
- FRANK NEWMAN MIDDLEMiddle · 259 students
Nearby schools
- FRANK NEWMAN MIDDLE28.2 mi · 259
- RAMIREZ-BURKS EL28.6 mi · 468
- COTULLA H S28.7 mi · 356
- UNITED H S29.5 mi · 3,463
- SAN ISIDRO EL29.7 mi · 794
- JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL30.7 mi · 768
Frequently asked questions
About ENCINAL ELHow many students attend ENCINAL EL?
ENCINAL EL enrolls approximately 74 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ENCINAL EL serve?
ENCINAL EL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at ENCINAL EL?
Approximately 7.6:1 students per teacher at ENCINAL EL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ENCINAL EL?
At ENCINAL EL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 99% Hispanic.
Is ENCINAL EL public or private?
ENCINAL EL is a public K-12 school, overseen by COTULLA ISD.
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