Enrollment
336
Elementary
DISTRICT 606 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNITED ISD·NCES 484365007150
Kennedy Zapata Elementary School
3809 S ESPEJO-MOLINA RD, LAREDO, TX 78046 · (956) 473-4100 · Webb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL336 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 84% of Texas public elementary schools
- B+Test 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.
- B+Three-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
12.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
326 students
DISTRICT 79% · 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 | 40 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
0%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 3% · 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
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
66.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +42.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
60.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +48.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 42 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 48 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 35.0% | 31.0% | 17.0% | 17.0% |
| Mathematics | 25.0% | 35.0% | 22.0% | 18.0% |
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 | 66.0% | 60.0% |
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 54.0% |
| 2021-22 | 56.0% | 54.0% |
| 2020-21 | 24.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% 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 17 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 Kennedy Zapata Elementary School
Kennedy Zapata Elementary School's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Zapata Elementary School this school | 336 | 97.0% | 49.5% |
| La Union Elementary School GARCIASVILLE | 341 | 96.2% | 32.8% |
| Hart Elementary School EL PASO | 343 | 95.6% | 20.3% |
| J Kawas Elementary School LAREDO | 363 | 97.2% | 68.7% |
| Carl C Waitz Elementary School ALTON | 361 | 97.5% | 32.8% |
| Sam Fordyce Elementary School SULLIVAN CITY | 356 | 98.6% | 53.0% |
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 Kennedy Zapata Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Webb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #1,467 of 4,401 | #29 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #975 of 4,466 ▲ 205 | #25 of 52 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #990 of 4,466 ▲ 80 | #21 of 52 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.5pp | #1,157 of 3,998 | #18 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 336 | #3,974 of 4,938 | #51 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #571 of 4,622 | #2 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.0% | #4,625 of 4,628 | #51 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.0% | #278 of 4,789 | #16 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #1,378 of 2,838 | #27 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
336
-23 (-6%) vs 2020
-48% since 2000-01, when it was 643
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
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 | 336 | 26.7 | 12.6:1 | 97% (326) |
| 2023-24 | 340 | 26.7 | 12.8:1 | 96% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 96% (328) |
| 2020-21 | 359 | 26 | 13.8:1 | 95% (342) |
| 2017-18 | 408 | 29.3 | 13.9:1 | 95% (388) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 31 | 14.1:1 | 95% (414) |
| 2010-11 | 527 | 38 | 13.9:1 | 98% (516) |
| 2000-01 | 643 | 47 | 13.7:1 | 99% (637) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kennedy Zapata Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (408 to 336); teachers down 9% (29.3 to 26.7).
About Kennedy Zapata Elementary School
In LAREDO, Texas, part of Webb County, Kennedy Zapata Elementary School is an elementary school. It has an enrollment of 336 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
UNITED ISD oversees Kennedy Zapata Elementary School and 50 other schools, with 40,742 students in total.
Roughly 100% of students at Kennedy Zapata Elementary School are Hispanic. The diversity index for Kennedy Zapata Elementary School is 0%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 12.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Kennedy Zapata Elementary School, which has 26.7. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Kennedy Zapata Elementary School is about 97%. That is higher than the 83% average for public schools in Webb County.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Kennedy Zapata Elementary School outscored 84%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Kennedy Zapata Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Texas schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 49.5%. Predicted: 32.3%. Difference: 17.3 points.
In the surrounding county, Webb County, median household income comes to about $63,058, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. The county has 95 public schools and about 63,717 students.
United Step Academy is the nearest public school to Kennedy Zapata Elementary School, about 2.4 miles away. Kennedy Zapata Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with 3 others within five miles. The school's 49.5% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 8 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Distant: the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
A 6% decline took enrollment from 359 in 2020-21 to 336 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.6:1.
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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
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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
- United Step Academy2.4 mi · 167
- Juarez/Lincoln Elementary School2.8 mi · 535
- Salvador Garcia Middle School2.9 mi · 361
- Veterans Memorial Elementary School7.2 mi · 815
- Lyndon B Johnson7.3 mi · 3,240
- Lamar Bruni Vergara Middle School7.3 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy Zapata Elementary SchoolHow large is Kennedy Zapata Elementary School?
Kennedy Zapata Elementary School enrolls approximately 336 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Kennedy Zapata Elementary School serve?
Kennedy Zapata Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kennedy Zapata Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kennedy Zapata Elementary School is approximately 12.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kennedy Zapata Elementary School?
At Kennedy Zapata Elementary School, the student body is approximately 100% Hispanic.
Is Kennedy Zapata Elementary School public or private?
Kennedy Zapata Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by UNITED ISD.
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