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Enrollment
605
Elementary
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDINBURG CISD·NCES 481818001500
Escandon Elementary School
1100 E TRENTON RD, EDINBURG, TX 78539 · (956) 289-2545 · Hidalgo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL605 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
476 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 89 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
2%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 4% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
58.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +24.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
58.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +39.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 39 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 39.0% | 19.0% | 24.0% | 18.0% |
| Mathematics | 26.0% | 32.0% | 20.0% | 22.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 58.0% | 58.0% |
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 53.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 60.0% |
| 2021-22 | 61.0% | 55.0% |
| 2020-21 | 34.0% | 19.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Escandon Elementary School
Escandon Elementary School's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escandon Elementary School this school | 605 | 78.7% | 54.5% |
| R C Flores-Mark A Zapata Elementary School EDINBURG | 625 | 77.4% | 50.8% |
| Bonnie L Garcia Elementary School LAREDO | 631 | 76.7% | 42.7% |
| Carrizo Springs Elementary School CARRIZO SPRINGS | 573 | 79.1% | 27.8% |
| Olivero Garza Sr Elementary School MCALLEN | 648 | 79.3% | 41.0% |
| De La Vina Elementary School EDINBURG | 641 | 78.6% | 49.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Escandon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #1,106 of 4,401 | #33 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,052 of 4,466 ▲ 159 | #34 of 183 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,616 of 4,466 ▼ 286 | #58 of 183 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #2,192 of 3,998 | #103 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 605 | #1,586 of 4,938 | #56 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #3,013 of 4,622 | #75 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.3% | #4,451 of 4,628 | #103 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.7% | #2,045 of 4,789 | #160 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #2,249 of 2,838 | #106 of 128 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
605
-53 (-8%) vs 2020
+9% since 2000-01, when it was 557
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 16.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 605 | 38.7 | 15.6:1 | 79% (476) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 43.6 | 14.9:1 | 85% (554) |
| 2022-23 | 701 | 44 | 15.9:1 | 85% (597) |
| 2020-21 | 658 | 39 | 16.9:1 | 86% (566) |
| 2017-18 | 655 | 40 | 16.4:1 | 87% (569) |
| 2015-16 | 681 | 36 | 18.9:1 | 83% (566) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 32 | 17.6:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 557 | 32 | 17.4:1 | 33% (183) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Escandon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (655 to 605); teachers down 3% (40 to 38.7).
About Escandon Elementary School
Escandon Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in EDINBURG, Texas. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 605 students.
Federal data list 44 schools in EDINBURG CISD, with 33,343 students enrolled.
Federal enrollment data show Escandon Elementary School is 99% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 2% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.6 students per teacher. That is close to the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 79%.
In Texas, Escandon Elementary School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 54.5% compared with a predicted 40.1%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Hidalgo County show that the median household income is $54,338, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. Besides Escandon Elementary School, Hidalgo County has 363 other public schools.
The closest other public school is IDEA Owassa College Preparatory, about 1.0 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Escandon Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment at Escandon Elementary School dropped 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 658 to 605 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.6:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Escandon Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EDINBURG CISD
- Economedes High SchoolHigh · 2,689 students
- Edinburg North High SchoolHigh · 2,542 students
- Edinburg High SchoolHigh · 2,267 students
- Robert R Vela High SchoolHigh · 2,101 students
- Betty Harwell Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,301 students
- South Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,246 students
Other schools in EDINBURG
- Economedes High SchoolHigh · 2,689 students
- Edinburg North High SchoolHigh · 2,542 students
- Edinburg High SchoolHigh · 2,267 students
- Robert R Vela High SchoolHigh · 2,101 students
- Vanguard BeethovenCombined · 1,782 students
- Betty Harwell Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,301 students
Other Escandon Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Escandon Elementary. Escandon Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Escandon Elementary SchoolMCALLEN, TX · 478 students
Nearby schools
- IDEA Owassa College Preparatory1.0 mi · 689
- IDEA Owassa Academy1.0 mi · 699
- Edinburg High School1.1 mi · 2,267
- Robert R Vela High School1.2 mi · 2,101
- Vanguard Beethoven1.5 mi · 1,782
- Texasworks - Edinburg-CTE1.8 mi · 47
Frequently asked questions
About Escandon Elementary SchoolHow large is Escandon Elementary School?
Escandon Elementary School enrolls approximately 605 students in grades PK-05.
Is Escandon Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Escandon Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Escandon Elementary School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Escandon Elementary School.
How diverse is Escandon Elementary School?
Escandon Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 99% Hispanic, 0% Black.
Who oversees Escandon Elementary School?
Escandon Elementary School is overseen by EDINBURG CISD in Hidalgo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.