HERNANDEZ EL

HERNANDEZ EL, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in SAN MARCOS, Texas, run under SAN MARCOS CISD, enrolls 577 students, covering grades K through 5.

HERNANDEZ EL is one of 12 schools operated by SAN MARCOS CISD, a district that serves 8,222 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HERNANDEZ EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 25% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HERNANDEZ EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hays County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HERNANDEZ EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hays County put the typical household earns roughly $89,097 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HERNANDEZ EL is one of 63 public schools in Hays County (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students).

MILLER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERNANDEZ EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HERNANDEZ EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 594 students in 2018 compared to 577 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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