Enrollment
363
Elementary
DISTRICT 513 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAREDO ISD·NCES 482679005765
J Kawas Elementary School
2100 S MILMO AVE, LAREDO, TX 78046 · (956) 273-3700 · Webb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL363 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
353 students
DISTRICT 97% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 61 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
1%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 1% · 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
74.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -7.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
64.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -28.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 28 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 47.0% | 27.0% | 12.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 35.0% | 29.0% | 25.0% | 11.0% |
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 | 74.0% | 64.0% |
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 70.0% |
| 2022-23 | 97.0% | 98.0% |
| 2021-22 | 97.0% | 96.0% |
| 2020-21 | 81.0% | 92.0% |
% 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
68.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.2%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+36.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% 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 37 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 J Kawas Elementary School
J Kawas Elementary School's state test result (68.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Kawas Elementary School this school | 363 | 97.2% | 68.7% |
| Carl C Waitz Elementary School ALTON | 361 | 97.5% | 32.8% |
| Progreso Early Childhood PROGRESO | 365 | 98.1% | N/A |
| Sam Fordyce Elementary School SULLIVAN CITY | 356 | 98.6% | 53.0% |
| Evangelina Garza Elementary School MISSION | 384 | 96.6% | 27.3% |
| Ray H Darr Elementary School EAGLE PASS | 383 | 98.2% | 46.8% |
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 J Kawas Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Webb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #352 of 4,401 | #9 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #708 of 4,466 ▼ 640 | #18 of 52 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #533 of 4,466 ▼ 365 | #11 of 52 ▼ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -28.5pp | #22 of 3,998 | #1 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 363 | #3,784 of 4,938 | #49 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,537 of 4,622 | #12 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.6% | #4,561 of 4,628 | #39 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.2% | #254 of 4,789 | #14 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.2% | #246 of 2,838 | #4 of 43 |
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
363
-65 (-15%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 760
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 363 | 25.9 | 14.0:1 | 97% (353) |
| 2023-24 | 302 | 23.2 | 13.0:1 | 97% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 385 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 97% (375) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 31 | 13.8:1 | 99% (424) |
| 2017-18 | 578 | 32.7 | 17.7:1 | 98% (566) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 98% (552) |
| 2010-11 | 669 | 40 | 16.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 56% (291) |
| 1990-91 | 760 | 33 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J Kawas Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 37% (578 to 363); teachers down 21% (32.7 to 25.9).
About J Kawas Elementary School
J Kawas Elementary School sits in LAREDO, Texas, and is classified as an elementary school. The school counts 363 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 30% smaller than the 519 average for elementary schools in Texas.
The 30 schools in LAREDO ISD enroll 20,271 students altogether, J Kawas Elementary School among them.
J Kawas Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 100% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at J Kawas Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 1%.
Federal data list 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at J Kawas Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.0:1. Among elementary schools in Texas, the typical ratio is 15.1:1. The lunch program counts 97% of students at J Kawas Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 83% for public schools in Webb County.
allk12 grades J Kawas Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Texas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in Texas with J Kawas Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 32.2%. J Kawas Elementary School scores 68.7%.
County data help place the school in context: in Webb County, median household income is about $63,058, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 19%. J Kawas Elementary School is among the 95 public schools in Webb County.
The shortest distance from J Kawas Elementary School to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Dr Leo Cigarroa High School. The five-mile area around J Kawas Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. J Kawas Elementary School comes in 1st of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
J Kawas Elementary School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 428 to 363.
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Webb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,294
Census ACS
Median income
$63,058
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
63,717 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAREDO ISD
- Nixon High SchoolHigh · 2,124 students
- Martin High SchoolHigh · 1,975 students
- Dr Leo Cigarroa High SchoolHigh · 1,379 students
- Lamar Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,204 students
- Christen Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,115 students
- Joaquin Cigarroa Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,053 students
Other schools in LAREDO
- United High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- United South High SchoolHigh · 3,252 students
- Lyndon B JohnsonHigh · 3,240 students
- John B Alexander High SchoolHigh · 3,171 students
- Nixon High SchoolHigh · 2,124 students
- Martin High SchoolHigh · 1,975 students
Nearby schools
- Dr Leo Cigarroa High School0.3 mi · 1,379
- Joaquin Cigarroa Middle School0.4 mi · 1,053
- H B Zachry Elementary School0.6 mi · 562
- Santo Nino Elementary School0.6 mi · 542
- Ligarde Elementary School0.6 mi · 571
- United South Middle School0.9 mi · 869
Frequently asked questions
About J Kawas Elementary SchoolHow large is J Kawas Elementary School?
J Kawas Elementary School enrolls approximately 363 students in grades PK-05.
Is J Kawas Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
J Kawas Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does J Kawas Elementary School have?
J Kawas Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
How diverse is J Kawas Elementary School?
J Kawas Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 100% Hispanic.
Who oversees J Kawas Elementary School?
J Kawas Elementary School is overseen by LAREDO ISD in Webb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.