HENRY FORD EL

HENRY FORD EL operates as an average-sized primary school in PHARR, Texas, one of the schools within PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 643 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so HENRY FORD EL sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 44 schools in PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (29,749 students total), HENRY FORD EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, HENRY FORD EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%).

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HENRY FORD EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. HENRY FORD EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

The closest other public school is PSJA SOTOMAYOR BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HENRY FORD EL. On composite proficiency, HENRY FORD EL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 779 students in 2018 compared to 643 in 2025.

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