JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL

JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in LAREDO, Texas, one of the schools within UNITED ISD, educateing 768 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 48% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL is one of 51 schools operated by UNITED ISD, a district that works with 40,742 students overall.

Looking at the student body, JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL shows 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.2%; this one delivers 46.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Webb County shows median household income runs about $63,058, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 915 students in 2018 compared to 768 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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