FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is an elementary-level community of close-knit scale in SAN BENITO, Texas, run under SAN BENITO CISD, serveing 441 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within SAN BENITO CISD, which oversees 23 schools and 9,137 students, FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY shows that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 31.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Cameron County shows median household earnings sit near $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is ROBERTS EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRED BOOTH GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 32.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 503 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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