LEYENDECKER EL

LEYENDECKER EL is an elementary campus of modestly sized scale in LAREDO, Texas, run under LAREDO ISD, educateing 406 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LEYENDECKER EL sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 30 schools in LAREDO ISD (20,271 students total), LEYENDECKER EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEYENDECKER EL shows that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Webb County as a whole.

On the resource side, LEYENDECKER EL logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Webb County's rate of about 83%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEYENDECKER EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 30.2%; actual is 73.6%, +43.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Webb County indicate median household income runs about $63,058, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), LEYENDECKER EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CHRISTEN MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEYENDECKER EL. On composite proficiency, LEYENDECKER EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.

LEYENDECKER EL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. LEYENDECKER EL's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 406). Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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