JOHN H SHARY EL

JOHN H SHARY EL is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in MISSION, Texas, overseen by SHARYLAND ISD, caters to 652 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

JOHN H SHARY EL is one of 13 schools operated by SHARYLAND ISD, a district that caters to 9,844 students overall.

On demographics, JOHN H SHARY EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 9% White. That composition is broadly in line with Hidalgo County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, JOHN H SHARY EL reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JOHN H SHARY EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN H SHARY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), JOHN H SHARY EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SHARYLAND H S, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JOHN H SHARY EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.1%.

JOHN H SHARY EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN H SHARY EL has contracted 3%, going from 672 students in 2018 to 652 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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