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Enrollment
643
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD·NCES 483486003915
Henry Ford Elementary School
1110 E POLK ST, PHARR, TX 78577 · (956) 354-2770 · Hidalgo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL643 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
631 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 121 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 2% · 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
55.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +38.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
58.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +46.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 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 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 46 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 19.0% | 36.0% | 28.0% | 17.0% |
| Mathematics | 26.0% | 32.0% | 24.0% | 18.0% |
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 | 55.0% | 58.0% |
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 45.0% |
| 2022-23 | 30.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 27.0% | 26.0% |
| 2020-21 | 17.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 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 Henry Ford Elementary School
Henry Ford Elementary School's state test result (40.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Ford Elementary School this school | 643 | 98.1% | 40.1% |
| Canales Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 630 | 97.9% | 29.6% |
| Vermillion Road Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 654 | 97.9% | 44.9% |
| David G Burnet Elementary School DALLAS | 631 | 97.3% | 44.7% |
| Shaw Ses CORPUS CHRISTI | 638 | 97.3% | 25.7% |
| Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary School LAREDO | 612 | 97.2% | 50.8% |
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 Henry Ford Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #2,566 of 4,401 | #118 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,094 of 4,466 ▲ 1,526 | #39 of 183 ▲ 77 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,978 of 4,466 ▲ 654 | #77 of 183 ▲ 42 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +20.0pp | #503 of 3,998 | #16 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 643 | #1,298 of 4,938 | #45 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #3,210 of 4,622 | #91 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.8% | #4,430 of 4,628 | #94 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.1% | #168 of 4,789 | #15 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #1,385 of 2,838 | #68 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
643
-50 (-7%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 651
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 643 | 40.4 | 15.9:1 | 98% (631) |
| 2023-24 | 693 | 39.8 | 17.4:1 | 97% (672) |
| 2022-23 | 646 | 38.8 | 16.7:1 | 95% (612) |
| 2020-21 | 693 | 44 | 15.8:1 | 90% (627) |
| 2017-18 | 779 | 48 | 16.3:1 | 91% (711) |
| 2015-16 | 835 | 48 | 17.4:1 | 87% (729) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 34 | 15.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 35 | 15.9:1 | 10% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 651 | 40 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry Ford Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (779 to 643); teachers down 16% (48 to 40.4).
About Henry Ford Elementary School
Henry Ford Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in PHARR, Texas. The school counted 643 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. That is 24% larger than the average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
Henry Ford Elementary School is run by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD, whose 44 schools enroll 29,749 students.
Of every 100 students at Henry Ford Elementary School, about 99 are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 3, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 15.9:1 is based on 40.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. In all, 98% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Hidalgo County report 85%.
On BeatsExpectations, Henry Ford Elementary School is 8.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Texas schools.
In the surrounding county, Hidalgo County, the median household earns about $54,338 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. Hidalgo County has 364 public schools with about 212,859 students, including Henry Ford Elementary School.
The closest school to Henry Ford Elementary School is Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy, located about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 5 schools in the immediate area with test results, Henry Ford Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Henry Ford Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 50 students, from 693 to 643.
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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 PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD
- Psja Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,300 students
- Psja North Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,166 students
- Psja Memorial Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Psja Southwest Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Lyndon B Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- Austin Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
Other schools in PHARR
- Psja North Early College High SchoolHigh · 2,166 students
- Vanguard RembrandtCombined · 1,978 students
- Psja Southwest Early College High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Vanguard Van GoghCombined · 1,048 students
- Lyndon B Johnson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- IDEA College Preparatory PharrHigh · 848 students
Other Henry Ford Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Henry Ford Elementary. Henry Ford Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Henry Ford Elementary SchoolDEARBORN, MI · 697 students
- Henry Ford ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 445 students
Nearby schools
- Psja Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy0.2 mi · 167
- Psja Early Start0.3 mi · 527
- Psja Thomas Jefferson T-STEM Early College High School0.7 mi · 553
- Elvis J Ballew High School0.8 mi · 136
- Buell Central DAEP0.8 mi · 117
- Vanguard Rembrandt0.9 mi · 1,978
Frequently asked questions
About Henry Ford Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Henry Ford Elementary School?
Henry Ford Elementary School enrolls approximately 643 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Henry Ford Elementary School serve?
Henry Ford Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Henry Ford Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Henry Ford Elementary School is approximately 15.9:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Henry Ford Elementary School?
At Henry Ford Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 99% Hispanic.
Who oversees Henry Ford Elementary School?
Henry Ford Elementary School is overseen by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD in Hidalgo County.
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